Mobile, AL – Alabama death row inmate Jimmy Lee Dill faces lethal injection Thursday as attorneys wait to see if a stay of execution will be granted in his case.
His attorneys have asked the Alabama Supreme Court to halt his lethal injection and return his case to a Jefferson County court for review of his death sentence.
Prosecutors say the 49-year-old Dill has exhausted state and federal appeals of his May 24, 1989 capital murder conviction in the cocaine-related shooting and robbery of Leon Shaw.
Dill's attorneys told the state high court on Monday that Dill did not understand a plea deal prosecutors offered at his trial that could have brought a life sentence with a chance at parole.
Dill has been on death row at Holman prison for nearly 20 years.
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