Jeffery Lee faces execution Thursday because a judge overturned a jury’s vote for a life sentence under a since-abolished procedure called judicial override.

Jeffery Lee faces execution Thursday because a judge overturned a jury’s vote for a life sentence under a since-abolished procedure called judicial override.

Jeffery Lee was set to be executed by nitrogen gas Thursday.

Moments after a federal judge permanently blocked his execution by nitrogen gas, Lee told NBC News he was prepared to keep fighting. His fate remains uncertain.

Because of the ruling, Jeffrey Lee's execution will be delayed. He still faces the death penalty.

Lee’s case became the latest to test the legality of nitrogen gas executions. A lower court had ruled the method is unconstitutionally cruel.

The Supreme Court said Alabama can't execute inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, a controversial method a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

Lee’s lawyers asked the high court to keep the execution on hold, saying in a response that Alabama was asking it to intervene at the eleventh hour “to allow an execution that has…

The high court intervened after a federal judge and an appeals court deemed the execution method unconstitutional.

A spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Corrections said the execution was off for the evening and the state would not try another method.