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.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional

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.