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Alabama says its not ready to execute by nitrogen hypoxia

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Published 12:13 pm

By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s prison commissioner said the state is not ready to carry out an execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Q. Hamm said in a Thursday court filing that the state cannot execute an inmate next week by nitrogen hypoxia. A federal judge had ordered the state to clarify if the state was ready to implement the new execution method. Alan Miller is scheduled to be put to death on Sept. 22 for killing three men in a 1999 workplace shooting.  Miller is seeking to block his lethal injection, claiming prison staff lost paperwork he returned in 2018 choosing nitrogen hypoxia as his execution method.

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