Alabama’s attempt to execute Alan Miller in September wasn’t “botched” because it never really began after problems setting up an intravenous line for the lethal injection chemicals, the Alabama Attorney General’s Office argued Wednesday .
Deputy Alabama Attorney General James Houts said during the hearing that it wasn’t fair to call the attempt a “botched execution,” because the execution hadn’t commenced: Members of the execution team at the Alabama Department of Corrections couldn’t get a second line started for an IV established in time.
was given a deadline by the judge to produce documents related to the Sept. 22 execution attempt. The information is being sought by Miller’s attorneys in his federal lawsuit. Instead of producing the documents on the deadline, the AG’s Officeto keep certain information they would provide in the case from being made public.
Alabama Assistant Attorney General Audrey Jordan argued the names of the other members of the team should remain secret due to safety concerns. If one court document was leaked, she said, the names of those employees could be splashed on social media. She suggested the judge allow the state to provide pseudonyms for those people and refer to them as “execution team member one” and so forth, which would allow Miller’s attorneys to depose and investigate those persons.
Again, the AG’s Office argued the redactions should be kept intact due to security concerns and Jordan voiced worries as to how information could be leaked.Miller is the only living execution survivor in the United States, according to his attorneys.
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