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US federal judge blocks Alabama from executing man by nitrogen gas
A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from executing Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas, citing a violation of the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision followed an appeals court reversing the judge's prior constitutional ruling.
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