The procedure will replace lethal injection and they say it is believed to cause no pain. Experts have many doubts.
The state of Alabama in the United States, a . preparing to use New execute method never tested before, To execute a prisoner to death at the end of this month.
method, called nitrogen hypoxia, it will be used for the first time. The state’s deputy attorney general, James Houtes, told US District Judge Austin Huffker Jr. that Alan Eugene Miller was “highly likely” to be executed by this method. Its execution is currently scheduled 22 september by lethal injection.
The new method, which is licensed in Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi but never used, causes death. replace oxygen with nitrogen, the prisoner must wear a mask or plastic hoodBreathe in nitrogen and within minutes succumb to the gas, supposedly without any pain.
Lawyers said the 57-year-old inmate submitted a form in which he chose this method of execution instead of the traditional lethal injection. fear of needles
never used a method
Alabama has not yet developed a system for carrying out nitrogen killings, so no execution dates have been set for prisoners who choose it.
Miller’s defense attorney Mara Klebner said her legal team needed more information about the proceedings, adding that they do not want her to be a client.a test object for an untested exec method”.
Miller was a delivery truck driver who was convicted in the 1999 workplace shooting that killed Lee Holdbrook, Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis. According to prosecutors, Miller killed Holdbrook and Yancy at a business. He then went to another place to shoot Jarvis. Each victim was shot multiple times.,
The jurors convicted Miller after 20 minutes of deliberation. Miller believed that the victims were spreading rumors that he was gay. A defense psychiatrist discovered that Miller was suffering from a serious mental illness. However, it was not used as a base for the defense of insanity.
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