Alabama executes Alan Eugene Miller with nitrogen gas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Miller and his defense team reached a deal with the state that lethal injection would not be used in a second execution attempt, choosing nitrogen gas hypoxia instead, court documents reveal.
39% : Alan Eugene Miller became the second man in the nation executed by nitrogen gas Thursday when the state of Alabama put him to death for 1999 Shelby County triple homicide, after failing to do so by lethal injection in 2022.
38% : "I didn't do anything to be on death row.
31% : Derrick Ryan Dearman is scheduled to die by lethal injection Oct. 17, and Carey Dale Grayson is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia Nov. 21.
30% : The state confirmed his time of death as 6:39 p.m.He had been on death row since 2000 and was set to be executed by lethal injection in September 2022, but staff could not gain access to his veins for the IV lines before his death warrant expired.

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