Cruel, unusual, and undefined: Executing judgment on the death penalty
Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge overrode it under a practice Alabama subsequently abolished. Twenty-six years later, he is still alive — not because the courts […]
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Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge overrode it under a practice Alabama subsequently abolished. Twenty-six years later, he is still alive — not because the courts have doubted his guilt, but because they cannot agree on how Alabama is permitted to kill him.That is the Eighth Amendment in 2026. Recommended Stories Did Obergefell produce the benefits that advocates predicted? Cruel, unusual, and undefined: Executing judgment on the death penalty A Jew who fled Nazis coined ‘genocide’ — now anti-Zionists are hijacking his name The Supreme Court blocked Alabama from executing Lee with nitrogen gas on June 11, upholding a lower…
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