Cruel, unusual, and undefined: Executing judgment on the death penalty

Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998.

He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge overrode it under a practice Alabama subsequently abolished.

Twenty-six years later, he is still alive — not because the courts […] ...