MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama officials on Friday requested permission to carry out an execution using lethal injection just hours after a scheduled nitrogen gas execution was blocked by the courts.
The state attorney general’s office petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for authorization to issue a death warrant for Jeffery Lee, this time specifying lethal injection as the execution method.
“In sum, ADOC has not been barred from executing Lee, only from executing him by nitrogen hypoxia,” state lawyers wrote.
A representative from Lee’s defense team indicated they had no immediate response to the state’s latest action. Lee’s lawyers will now need to file their response with the Alabama Supreme Court.
The court filing occurred just hours after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall vowed to persist in efforts to carry out Lee’s death sentence.
