Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the decision to cancel Alan Miller’s scheduled execution was made after it became clear they could not start the process in time. The last-minute stay came nearly three hours after the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to go ahead. “Due to time constraints resulting from the delay in the judicial process, the execution was canceled after it was determined that the condemned inmate’s veins could not be accessed according to our protocol before the death warrant expired,” Hamm said. The execution team had begun the process of trying for IV access, but did not know for how long. The execution was abandoned around 11.30pm on Thursday – half an hour before the state’s death warrant expired. Miller, a delivery truck driver, was convicted of killing three men in a 1999 workplace shooting near Birmingham, Alabama. The 57-year-old had opted for nitrogen hypoxia over a lethal injection because of his fear of needles, but his lawyers said officials lost his papers. The technique is legally available to him, but has never been used in the United States. It would cause death by forcing the prisoner to breathe only nitrogen, depriving him of the oxygen he needs to maintain bodily functions. When Alabama approved nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method in 2018, state law gave inmates a short window to designate it as an execution method. Miller said he turned in the documents four years ago under nitrogen hypoxia, putting the papers in a slot in his cell door at Holman Correctional Institution for a prison official to pick up. His execution by any other means was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday after he found it was “substantially probable” that Miller “filed a timely election form, even though the state says it has no physical record of the form.” However, the Supreme Court justices – in a 5-4 decision – lifted an injunction that prevented the execution of the lethal injection from going forward.

title: “Alan Miller Triple Killer S Execution By Lethal Injection Called Off Because Alabama Officials Couldn T Find Vein In Time Us News " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-16” author: “Rita Manley”

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the decision to cancel Alan Miller’s scheduled execution was made after it became clear they could not start the process in time. The last-minute stay came nearly three hours after the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to go ahead. “Due to time constraints resulting from the delay in the judicial process, the execution was canceled after it was determined that the condemned inmate’s veins could not be accessed according to our protocol before the death warrant expired,” Hamm said. The execution team had begun the process of trying for IV access, but did not know for how long. The execution was abandoned around 11.30pm on Thursday – half an hour before the state’s death warrant expired. Miller, a delivery truck driver, was convicted of killing three men in a 1999 workplace shooting near Birmingham, Alabama. The 57-year-old had opted for nitrogen hypoxia over a lethal injection because of his fear of needles, but his lawyers said officials lost his papers. The technique is legally available to him, but has never been used in the United States. It would cause death by forcing the prisoner to breathe only nitrogen, depriving him of the oxygen he needs to maintain bodily functions. When Alabama approved nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method in 2018, state law gave inmates a short window to designate it as an execution method. Miller said he turned in the documents four years ago under nitrogen hypoxia, putting the papers in a slot in his cell door at Holman Correctional Institution for a prison official to pick up. His execution by any other means was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday after he found it was “substantially probable” that Miller “filed a timely election form, even though the state says it has no physical record of the form.” However, the Supreme Court justices – in a 5-4 decision – lifted an injunction that prevented the execution of the lethal injection from going forward.