Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using nitrogen gas
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after itcarried out the first execution using the new method.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said Miller’s execution would be carried out using nitrogen. Miller, now 59, was convicted of killing three people during a pair of 1999 workplace shootings in suburban Birmingham.
“The State of Alabama is prepared to carry out the execution of Miller’s sentence by means of nitrogen hypoxia,” the attorney general’s office wrote, adding that Miller has been on death row since 2000 and that it is time to carry out his sentence.
An attorney listed for Miller did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The execution date request comes as the state and advocates continue to present opposing views of what happened during the state’s first execution using nitrogen. Kenneth Smith shook and convulsed in seizure-like movements for several minutes on the death chamber gurney as he was put to death Jan. 25.
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