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       ~ Alan Miller, 26Sep24, (AL) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: June 1, 2024, 9:56 pm
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       Second Alabama man to be executed by nitrogen gas--
       February 22nd, 2024
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       The state of Alabama is seeking to execute a second inmate using
       nitrogen gas just weeks after becoming the first in the nation
       to use the controversial method.
       The state's attorney general asked Alabama's Supreme Court to
       set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who has been on
       death row since 2000.
       He was convicted of killing three people in a workplace
       shooting.
       The UN has condemned the nitrogen gas method as cruel.
       In January, the state executed another inmate, Kenneth Eugene
       Smith, with nitrogen gas. According to reporters at the
       execution, Smith thrashed violently on the gurney before being
       pronounced dead 25 minutes later.
       While advocates have opposed the method, the state argued it was
       "effective and humane" and says Miller, 59, will be executed the
       same way.
       Miller was convicted of killing three people - Terry Jarvis, Lee
       Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy - in 1999 during workplace shootings
       in Birmingham, Alabama.
       "It is once more the appropriate time for the execution of his
       sentence," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a
       statement.
       Miller survived a previous execution attempt by lethal injection
       in September 2022 as it was called off when it could not be
       completed by a midnight deadline.
       Following the failed attempt, Miller filed a federal lawsuit
       that alleges prison staff, trying to find a vein, poked him with
       needles for over an hour and left him at one point hanging
       vertically as he lay strapped to a gurney.
       In November 2022, the state agreed it would not use lethal
       injection in his execution but instead nitrogen gas.
       Ahead of Kenneth Eugene Smith's January execution, the UN, the
       EU and anti-death penalty activists condemned the use of
       nitrogen gas for the death penalty. Smith was convicted in 1989
       of murdering a preacher's wife, Elizabeth Sennett, in a
       killing-for-hire.
       UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said he had
       "serious concerns this novel and untested method of suffocation
       by nitrogen gas may amount to torture, or cruel, inhuman or
       degrading treatment".
       Inhaling pure nitrogen gas cuts off the oxygen supply to the
       brain. The procedure had never been used before in an execution,
       according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
       Besides Alabama, only two other states - Oklahoma and
       Mississippi - permit execution by nitrogen gas.
       Those states approved the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an
       alternative method of execution because the drugs used in lethal
       injections have become more difficult to find, contributing to a
       fall in the use of the death penalty nationally.
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