The US Supreme Court on Thursday prevented the state of Alabama from carrying out a planned execution of a death row inmate using nitrogen. The case concerns 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee, who was to be executed by inhalation of nitrogen gas. svet.sme.sk ↗
Lee was sentenced to death for the murder of two people during a robbery in 1998. The execution was scheduled to take place on Thursday, but the intervention of the US Supreme Court blocked its execution by this method. hnonline.sk ↗
The dispute centered on the method of carrying out the death sentence. A lower court had ruled that the use of nitrogen in the planned execution was an unconstitutional method of execution. The US Supreme Court subsequently prevented Alabama from proceeding according to the planned scenario in this particular case. teraz.sk ↗
The decision means that Jeffrey Lee's execution could not be carried out using nitrogen gas on Thursday. The case also leaves open the question of how the state of Alabama will proceed with carrying out the death penalty and using this method in future proceedings. SITA ↗
US Supreme Court blocks nitrogen execution in Alabama
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