Legal Advocates Are Urging Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to Halt the Execution of Jeffery Lee Before June 11
As Alabama prepares to execute Jeffery Lee on June 11, advocates and members of his legal team are raising serious concerns about the fairness of a death sentence that was never recommended by a jury.
Lee remains on Alabama’s death row under the state’s former judicial override system, a controversial practice that once allowed judges to impose death sentences even when juries voted for life imprisonment. In Lee’s case, jurors carefully reviewed the evidence and chose a life sentence. A judge later overrode that recommendation and sentenced him to death anyway…