Alabama Supreme Court Green Lights Nitrogen Gas Execution for Convict Who Survived Lethal Injection

[mystery-ak]

Alabama Supreme Court Green Lights Nitrogen Gas Execution for Convict Who Survived Lethal Injection
Nick R. Hamilton May 4, 2024 - 10:06 am



The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a death row inmate who previously survived after being given a lethal injection.

The convict, Alan Eugene Miller, will now receive execution by nitrogen gas, the Washington Examiner reported.

Alabama’s high court authorized the method in a decision Thursday.

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has not set the date for Miller’s execution.

Once it’s carried out, Miller will become the second death row inmate to die by nitrogen gas in the state.

However, the method has become controversial among liberal death penalty opponents.

After being convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace shooting, Miller was set to die by lethal injection.

However, the drug cocktail administered to Miller did not succeed in taking his life.

Attorneys for the condemned man echoed liberal opinions that the failed attempt was “precisely the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain that the Eighth Amendment was intended to prohibit.”

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[Fishrrman]

If they're just going to put a mask on this guy (as they did with the first one), they're doing it wrong. The prisoner will "fight the mask".

The better way would be to put the prisoner into an enclosure (in which he could breathe normally), and then introduce the nitrogen into it, replacing the oxygen.

This is how the "Sarco Pod" functions.

[mountaineer]

However, the drug cocktail administered to Miller did not succeed in taking his life.

Probably should have doubled the dosage. He seems to be a big fella.