The Deputy Attorney General for Alabama told a federal judge yesterday in Montgomery that its “very likely” that nitrogen hypoxia could be available for Alan Eugene Miller’s execution.
is set to be executed next week. The state may become the first in the country to use an untried method to carry out the death sentence.
We’re told nitrogen hypoxia is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen. It’s been authorized by Alabama and two other states but never used. Miller says he chose that method of execution in 2018 but the state says he did not. Miller filed a federal lawsuit claiming the state lost his form. We found out in a hearing Monday that the state is nearly ready with this untried execution method. Governor Ivey reacted in Mobile Tuesday when asked about it.
Reporter: “Are you confident the Department of Corrections is prepared to do that and are you expecting them to release any protocols on how to go about doing it?”We’re still waiting on the judge’s ruling in the hearing. Miller was convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting rampage in 1999 in Shelby County.
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