Top suggestions for Continue watchingLos Angeles FC defender Aaron Long says a U.S. win against Paraguay would "settle all the nerves"after the adThe video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboardLee has been incarcerated on the state's death row since his conviction in a 1998 double murder and store robbery. The jury that presided over his criminal case voted 7-2 for Lee to receive a lifetime prison sentence rather than face the death penalty, but the trial judge overruled them. That practice, called "judicial override," landed many inmates on Alabama's death row before it was outlawed in 2017.Alabama has consistently defended its nitrogen gas protocol as a humane alternative to lethal injection, the state's primary execution method, which faced heavy scrutiny after several botched execution attempts. Legal challenges to the nitrogen gas method are set to go to trial in 2027.Emily Mae Czachor contributed to this report.More from CBS NewsSupreme Court declines to let Alabama move forward with nitrogen gas execution White House to appeal judge's order to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center |
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