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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Alabama carries out nation's second nitrogen gas execution

2024-09-27

[SeeBS News] Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country.

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, the state Department of Corrections said in a statment. He shook and trembled on the gurney for about two minutes with his body at times pulling against the restraints. That was followed by about six minutes of gasping breathing.
Oh noes! He may have actually suffered a bit?
The Department of Corrections said Miller had seven visitors on Wednesday and nine on Thursday. His final meal consisted of "hamburger steak, baked potato, and French fries," the department said.

Miller was convicted of killing three men — Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis — in 1999 and the state had previously attempted to execute him by lethal injection in 2022.

The execution was the second to use the new method Alabama first employed in January, when Kenneth Smith was put to death. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the inmate's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.

Posted by:Frank G

#5 Whoops, that was me. I guess if you want to speed it up you can show them nude pics of Hillary. That'd speed it up to about 2 seconds.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-09-27 16:16

#4 Look it's simple. Build a chair with an air driven spike above it. Put inmate in chair with dead man switch to the spike. Put TV in front of him and make him watch a never ending loop of Kamala speaking. When they can't take it anymore, they let go and the spike comes down. And look, prison suicide, just like Epstein!

Posted by: Vortigern Threremble9014 2024-09-27 16:15

#3 From trial to practice, via the web.

Suicide of a young woman using a kit containing sodium nitrite ordered on the internet

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-27 09:01

#2
I support a Death method applied as was used by the Murderer.

It is no less humane or unusual, since the murder used it themselves.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-09-27 04:19

#1 I just love these stories that increase the oxygen supply for the rest of us.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-09-27 04:12

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