Nearly seven months to the day after Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first known person executed using nitrogen hypoxia, another Alabama convict is set to die in the same way.
Alan Eugene Miller was originally set to die by lethal injection in 2022 but staff could not access his veins before the death warrant expired.
Alan Miller to go to death in September as state rejects warnings that gas-mask method represents cruel and unusual punishmentAlabama has scheduled its second execution of a death row prisoner using the novel technique of nitrogen gas, brushing aside objections that the procedure is a form of cruel and unusual punishment banned under the US constitution.Barring last-minute judicial moves, Alan Miller, 59, will be put to his death on 26 September, after an execution date was set on Thursday by...
Alabama has scheduled a date for the upcoming execution of Alan Eugene Miller, a convicted murderer who, after surviving a previous execution attempt, is set to become the second inmate ever put to death using nitrogen gas in the United States. Nitrogen hypoxia is a controversial method allowed only in a handful of U.S. states that essentially aims to asphyxiate the prisoner with a gas mask devoid of oxygen. The first person executed this way was Kenneth Smith, who was put to death in late...
Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a Sept. 26 execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace shooting. The execution will be carried out by nitrogen gas, the governor's office said. Miller survived a 2022 lethal injection attempt. The governor’s action comes a week after the Alabama Supreme...
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