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Lee Hedgepeth
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Alabama reporter for @insideclimate. I write @treadbylee, a newsletter of Southern journalism. Sign up below.
Birmingham, Alabama
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Mar 11, 2022
    Twitter, I need your help. On Sunday in Selma, this woman stood for hours in the heat to see @VP Kamala Harris. She asked me to take her picture. She wanted to be seen - to be remembered on such a historic day. I wasn't able to get her contact info. Retweet this & let's find her.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jun 19, 2024
    I still think about this interaction with a Cuomo producer on a regular basis
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    Bill O'Reilly
    @BillOReilly
    Jun 19, 2024
    I'll be on @NewsNation 📺 tonight, 8 PM ET, with host @ChrisCuomo. To find NewsNation, go to JoinNN.com (#AD)
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jul 28, 2022
    ADOC officials just told a reporter that her skirt is too short to witness the execution. Other reporters were able to find her pants to wear.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Oct 24, 2025
    Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account:
    After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest...
    From treadbylee.com
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Mar 6, 2022
    Selma is ready to hear @VP Kamala Harris speak.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jul 28, 2022
    Replying to @RobinsonCarol
    Not sure I follow? ADOC enforcing a policy that hasn't been enforced at any of the executions I've witnessed seems very relevant.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    May 31, 2023
    Charles Tuberville, brother of @SenTuberville, has publicly denounced his sibling's recent comments. Read his full statement, reported first in @TreadbyLee: bit.ly/3Cmf6bX
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Dec 28, 2022
    66 years ago, a sniper shot Rosa Jordan, only 22, as she sat on a Montgomery bus. She was 8 months pregnant. For decades, the story of what happened after that act of terror went untold. That ends today. Meet Rose, Jordan's "big baby,” & share her story. bit.ly/3i0Y50b
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jul 28, 2022
    Replying to @RobinsonCarol
    I didn't name anyone in the tweet. If you don't think reporting that ADOC is doing skirt-length checks ahead of an execution, you're welcome to that view. I happen to disagree.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Feb 13, 2023
    A newly filed lawsuit, based in part on reporting by @CBS_42, claims that an Alabama man froze to death in police custody and was "likely" placed in a jail freezer during his detention. (1) Full story & a thread:
    After release of video, lawsuit claims Alabama man froze to death in police custody, was ‘likely’...
    From cbs42.com
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jul 28, 2022
    Here is a statement from the family of Faith Hall on the execution of Joe Nathan James, Jr. You can read my extensive interview with the family here: bit.ly/3cRoB9u
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Feb 18, 2023
    Alabama's Attorney General watched video of Anthony Mitchell's limp body being placed into a Walker County police vehicle for the first time today. "It's almost like he's posturing a little bit," the AG said while watching. Read Mitchell's story here: bit.ly/3k8fjtC
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Jun 5, 2023
    Newbern, Alabama had never had an African-American mayor until Patrick Braxton. But once he ascended to the majority-Black town's top office, the trouble began: a white minority locked him out of town hall. Read & share the full story, only on @TreadbyLee:
    He became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama. A white minority locked him out of town hall.
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    Lee Hedgepeth
    @lee_hedgepeth
    Dec 7, 2022
    Dee Kent, then 77, was on her way from Valley, Alabama, to a doc's appt. in Opelika when she was pulled over. Police cuffed & arrested her for failure to pay a $141 trash bill. She said her husband had recently died, and she sometimes forgets to pay. (1) bit.ly/3utTdDq