Alabama inmate Alan Miller set to be executed with nitrogen gas Thursday for 1999 shootings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : First attempted executionThe state first tried to execute Miller two years ago, on Sept. 22, 2022, using lethal injection.
44% : Miller's legal battles prior to that execution attempt centered around his claims that in June 2018, he completed a form distributed to death row inmates at Holman electing to die by the state's newly approved method of execution, nitrogen hypoxia, instead of the default method of lethal injection.
43% : And later, the state agreed with Miller's lawyers in a federal lawsuit that it would not seek to execute Miller by lethal injection again, and that any attempt to execute him in the future would be done with nitrogen gas.
42% : The AG's Office argued there was no record of that form being submitted, and that he should be executed using lethal injection instead.
40% : In that document, Sotomayor noted Alabama failed in its first attempt to execute Smith by lethal injection -- an execution attempt that happened just after the attempted execution of Miller in 2022.

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