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Alabama Executes Alan Eugene Miller for Killing Three Men in Second-Ever Nitrogen Gas Execution

Sep 27, 2024, 12:14 AM

Alabama has carried out the second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the United States. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was executed on Thursday for the 1999 murders of three men, including two coworkers and his former supervisor. This execution follows a failed attempt to execute Miller by lethal injection in 2022. The use of nitrogen gas as a method of execution has sparked sharp disagreements over its humaneness, with some witnesses describing the prisoner shaking and gasping before dying. Critics have called the method controversial and akin to torture. Miller was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. CT.