Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 6.3.26
Governor Ivey set 6.11.26 as the execution date for Jeffery Lee and she has the power to grant clemency. It is important to note that he has many powerful issues, including 7-5 jury override of the life without sentence for which the jury had voted and at the time of the crime an untreated TBI
Mr. Lee is a highly respected and much loved member of our Board and Secretary/Treasurer. Jeffery Lee has a Facebook page “Life For Jeffery Lee” and a website https://www.lifeforjefferylee.com/ where you can learn more about Jaylove, as he is called by his friends and family. The Talking Points and address for the Governor can be found at https://www.phadp.org/execution-alert-10/ .and the petition https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-jeffery-lee-in-alabama/ We are forwarding actions from his team The Life for Jeffery Lee Campaign, and hope that we can count on you to act on his behalf!
It was and is our honor to hand out information and ask people to sign the petition at grocery stores, parking lots, post office, a church, the library wherever life takes us. Once you start this the opportunities are endless!
alabama-gov-kay-ivey-banned-judicial-override-in-2017-now-its-time-she-finished-the-job-op-ed in Al com and this is certainly our hope that Governor Kay Ivey will.
SAVE THE DATE: 11AM CT on June 8
(Petition Delivery for Jeffery Lee will follow a brief rally – Meet at Dexter
Ave. steps of the Alabama Capitol at 10:45am) There will be statements from State Senator Robert Stewart, Death Penalty Action and Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty and others. Attendees are invited to ring the traveling bell from the Tolling of the Bell Project ringing out a plea to end the death penalty.
We have sent out details for Life for Jeffery Lee Vigil on the 9th from 7:00-8:00 pm outside the Governor’s Mansion. We will also be sending out details for the vigils for the 11th if there is no stay.
Federal Judge Upholds Constitutionality of Nitrogen Gas Executions – USNews The decision is being appealed and one wishes that those deciding had been actual witnesses of this torture death! We appreciate Josh Moon’s take on this: “Suffocating for three minutes and dying is not cruel and unusual punishment.
So said a federal court judge in Alabama last week, as the first ruling on the use of nitrogen gas as a method of execution ended exactly the way you thought it would in Alabama.
District Court Judge Emily Marks heard the case, which was brought by Jeffrey Lee, an inmate who is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on June 11. Marks’ ruling in the case was a case study in hypocrisy and lunacy, as evidenced by this doozy of a line: “While Lee establishes that death by nitrogen hypoxia involves some suffering, he fails to show that the protocol is cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed the Child Predator Death Penalty Act into law — making Alabama one of the toughest states in the nation on convicted child sex offenders. The law takes effect October 1, 2026. “Child Predators Present the Strongest Case for the Death Penalty…But It’s Still Unjustifiable”
Jeff Hood, Execution Intervention Project. Thank you for writing this!
From the Execution Intervention Project a new project: The Esther Brown Book Fund: An Exciting New Project and it is exciting because reading has helped and helps so many on death row. We thank the Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood also for the honor which made me reluctant to share this!
We thank all who are working so hard and diligently to stop all killing in Alabama! And as always in closing, we thank all our generous donors who either gave by going to our website and using the “donate” button or who gave directly. Thank you also to all who took the time to read our notes, commented, liked and shared them on Facebook. Stay safe and be kind to each other.
Esther
