SCOTUS Blocks Alabama Execution Hours Before Inmate Was Set To Die

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night refused to allow Alabama to execute death row inmate Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas.

The nation’s highest court halted what would have been the state’s first execution of 2026 just hours before it was scheduled to take place.

Lee, 49, had been scheduled to die at 6 p.m. local time.

Instead, the justices denied Alabama’s continue reading …