Alabama defensive lineman passes away at the age of 27 from cancer: “A great teammate”

Tragic: A 27-year-old Alabama defensive lineman dies of cancer: “A fantastic teammate”

Alabama plans to attempt Alan Eugene Miller’s execution a second time, but they’ll use nitrogen gas in place of a lethal injection.

Miller’s execution for the 1999 killings of three coworkers is set for September 27 between midnight and six a.m., according to Governor Kay Ivey’s schedule. The state will be executing someone for nitrogen hypoxia for the second time with this method; Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed in January.

The Alabama Supreme Court authorized Miller’s execution on May 2.

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Miller believed that Terry Lee Jarvis, Yancy, and others were disseminating false information about him at work. In 2000, Miller was convicted of capital murder. Miller’s defense claimed that the victims’ gunshot wounds were caused in part by his mental illness.

September is scheduled for the state’s second attempt at Miller’s execution. Miller was one of three death row inmates who had ineffective executions in 2022. Alabama tried to execute Miller for the first time in September 2022, but the three attempts that year ended in failure.

After an approximately two and a half hour long effort, Joe Nathan James, Jr. was executed in July 2022. His body had many puncture marks, indicating that there had been several efforts to find a vein to give the

execution. He said that he was left wounded and dangling on the stretcher. Two months later, Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution was deferred following the failure of an additional attempt to set up IV lines.

Ivey put a temporary stop to executions shortly after Smith’s botched execution in order to give the Department of Corrections time to review the lethal injection procedure and address any problems.Ivey said in February 2023 that the moratorium was lifted, allowing executions to resume after Corrections announced changes to the procedural guidelines. Ivey and DOC did not offer a justification for those.

Miller tried to stop his scheduled execution by submitting a lawsuit to the U.S. District Court at the end of March. In the complaint, his attorneys said that the state was taking away his freedom of speech by