US Supreme Court denies Alabama's request to carry out nitrogen gas execution
Lee was convicted of murdering two people in a 1998 pawnshop robbery and has been on Alabama's death row for more than two decades. A
Lee was convicted of murdering two people in a 1998 pawnshop robbery and has been on Alabama's death row for more than two decades. A jury recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison, but a judge overturned the jury's decision and sentenced him to death under a since-abolished judicial override procedure.
