Alabama can either change its nitrogen executions or use firing squad, lawyer says

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Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action leads a protest outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, against a scheduled execution in Alabama using nitrogen gas. The scrutiny on gas executions was the topic of a Monday hearing in the case of death row inmate Jeffery Lee. (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)

On Monday, Jeffery Lee’s attorneys said Alabama shouldn’t be allowed to execute him via lethal injection as a backup plan after the federal courts said the state couldn’t use nitrogen in the same way it had for two years.

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