The Supreme Court denied Alabama’s emergency request to execute Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas after lower courts found the method likely unconstitutional. Lee remains on death row, and state officials said they will continue seeking his execution.
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Current and former inmates in Alabama are suing the state and private companies for allegedly profiting from a "modern-day form of slavery" in the form of prison labor. The lawsuit claims that inmates are forced to work for little or no pay in inhumane conditions, and seeks to abolish the state's "captive labor source" and award damages to prisoners. The lawsuit comes at a time when the Alabama Department of Corrections is already facing scrutiny for its treatment of inmates, and highlights the need for reform in the prison system.
James Barber was executed by lethal injection in Alabama on Thursday evening, after being convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps. His execution marks the first in the state since February, when a pause in capital punishment was imposed due to a series of failed lethal injection attempts. Barber had requested to block his execution over fears of harm, but a federal appeals court panel rejected his request.