Alan Eugene Miller Alabama Halts Last Minute Execution Of Inmate Who Challenged Method After Finding It Could Not Be Completed By Midnight Deadline Officials Say
The state of Alabama halted the execution of a death row inmate Thursday night after failing to comply with protocols before a midnight deadline, officials say. Alan Eugene Miller was set to be executed by lethal injection after a US Supreme Court ruling earlier Thursday overturned a court ruling in a long-running dispute over whether Miller would die by that method or by nitrogen hypoxia, an untested and unproven method that Alabama officials had....