Alabama sets new execution window for Jeffery Lee in 1998 pawnshop killings

Alabama resets Jeffery Lee's execution after courts blocked nitrogen hypoxia method

Governor Kay Ivey scheduled Jeffery Lee's September 17 execution by lethal injection after federal courts blocked Alabama's planned nitrogen hypoxia execution.

Alabama sets new execution date for Jeffery Lee after nitrogen execution was banned

After a federal court prevented Alabama from executing a death row inmate with nitrogen gas, the state has set a new date for his execution using a different method. In a letter to ADOC Commissioner Greg Lovelace Thursday, Gov. Kay…

New execution date set for Alabama death row inmate who stopped nitrogen gas execution

A jury convicted Jeffrey Lee of the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery. Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday set a September execution date for Lee, who successfully challenged Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol earlier this year. (Alabama Department of Corrections)Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Thursday set a September execution date for Jeffrey Lee, a death row inmate who successfully prevented the state from executing …

Alabama sets new execution window for Jeffery Lee in 1998 pawnshop killings

Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered Jeffery Lee to be put to death by lethal injection after his scheduled nitrogen hypoxia execution was halted.

Ivey sets September execution window for death row inmate Jeffery Lee

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Kay Ivey has set a September execution window for Alabama death row inmate Jeffery Lee. Ivey notified Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Lovelace in a Thursday, July 30, letter that Lee’s execution window will start at midnight Thursday, Sept. 17, and expire at 6 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18. Lee was sentenced to death for the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson, and the attempted murder of Helen Kin…

Execution date set for man convicted of 1998 double murder

Lee was originally sentenced to life without parole by a jury, but a judge overrode the sentence for the murder charges, upgrading Lee’s life sentence to a death sentence.