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Governor Kay Ivey scheduled Jeffery Lee's September 17 execution by lethal injection after federal courts blocked Alabama's planned nitrogen hypoxia execution.
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judicial override stories
The Voice of Alabama Politics
This week’s "The Voice of Alabama Politics" examines citizenship, constitutional enforcement, death penalty clemency and voter turnout as Alabama’s political stakes sharpen in 2026.
News
The group said 25 Alabama death row prisoners remained under sentences imposed through a practice the state abolished in 2017.
Featured Opinion
The state is fighting over the method of execution while ignoring the larger question of judicial override.
Legislature
Alabama Arise outlines 2026 priorities on hunger, education, justice and workers' rights, while urging early advocacy in a fast paced session.
Legislature
Judicial override previously allowed judges to usurp a jury and sentence someone to death.
Featured Opinion
This rush to execute before revisiting a condemned practice not only appears hypocritical but also cruel.
Legislature
His new bill would allow those sentenced to death under judicial override to be resentenced.
Legislature
Judges have been barred from overriding the jury in death penalty sentencing since the Legislature passed a law to that effect in 2018.
Legislature
Rep. Chris England's bill would also apply in cases of judicial override, which the Legislature ended in 2017.