Alabama set to conduct nation's second nitrogen gas execution this week

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "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 in the document calling for his execution, adding that Miller has been on death row since 2000 and that it is time to carry out his sentence.
43% : In Alabama, there are about 160 inmates on death row, and they are given the option of what method of execution will be used.
43% : The three options in Alabama are lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia and electrocution.
43% : At the time, several state legislatures were concerned about companies deciding they would no longer supply the drugs or compounds to states that use lethal injection as a method of execution.
42% : Miller 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.
41% : If an inmate does not choose a method of execution, the fallback is lethal injection.
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.

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