2026-06-12T20:05:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
阿拉巴马州周五在其氮气行刑计划被阻止数小时后，转而寻求通过注射死刑处决一名男子。
阿拉巴马州总检察长办公室已请求阿拉巴马州最高法院对杰弗里·李签发死刑令，此次将采用注射死刑。
州检察官在文件中写道：“简言之，阿拉巴马州惩教署并未被禁止处决李，只是被禁止以氮气缺氧的方式处决他。”
这张阿拉巴马州惩教署2026年6月11日周四提供的未注明日期照片显示的是杰弗里·李，他因1998年在一家当铺抢劫期间杀害两人而被判处死刑。阿拉巴马州惩教署 via 美联社
李的法律团队发言人表示，他们不会立即就这一举措置评。下一步，他的律师将向阿拉巴马州最高法院回应这一请求。
这一文件提交数小时前，阿拉巴马州总检察长史蒂夫·马歇尔曾承诺将继续推进对李的死刑执行。
美国最高法院周四晚间拒绝解除禁令，该禁令阻止阿拉巴马州以氮气方式处决李。一名地区法官在裁定该州的氮气行刑方案违反宪法中关于禁止残忍且不寻常惩罚的条款后，签发了这项禁令。不过，该禁令并未阻止该州使用其他经授权的行刑方式——注射死刑或电椅——来处决李。
根据法庭文件，现年49岁的李原定于美国中部时间周四下午6点以氮气缺氧方式被处决。
李自1998年因双重谋杀和商店抢劫罪名成立后，便一直在该州死囚区服刑。审理其刑事案件的陪审团以7票赞成、2票反对的结果，建议对李判处终身监禁而非死刑，但主审法官推翻了陪审团的裁决。这种被称为“司法越权”的做法，在2017年被废除前，曾让众多囚犯登上阿拉巴马州的死囚名单。
阿拉巴马州一直为其氮气行刑方案辩护，称其是该州主要行刑方式注射死刑的人道替代方案。注射死刑在多次行刑失败后遭到了严格审查。针对氮气行刑方式的法律挑战将于2027年开庭审理。
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Alabama seeks lethal injection execution for death row inmate after Supreme Court rejects nitrogen gas method
2026-06-12T20:05:00-0400 / CBS/AP
Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.
The Alabama Attorney General’s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to authorize a death warrant for Jeffery Lee, this time using lethal injection.
“In sum, ADOC has not been barred from executing Lee, only from executing him by nitrogen hypoxia,” state lawyers wrote.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections on Thursday, June 11, 2026, shows Jeffery Lee, who was sentenced to death for killing two people during a 1998 robbery at a pawn shop. Alabama Department of Corrections via AP
A spokesman for Lee’s legal team said they did not have an immediate comment on the action. The next step is for his attorneys to respond to the request at the Alabama Supreme Court.
The filing came hours after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall promised to continue fighting to carry out Lee’s death sentence.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night refused to lift an injunction blocking the state from executing Lee with nitrogen gas. A district judge issued the injunction after finding the state’s nitrogen protocol violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The injunction, however, did not block the state from using one of its other authorized methods, lethal injection or the electric chair, to put Lee to death.
Lee, 49, was scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia at 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, according to court filings.
Lee 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.
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