After Alabama became the first state to execute a death row prisoner via nitrogen gas in January, the state is set to perform the second-ever execution on Thursday.

Alabama is set to perform the second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the United States on Thursday.

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of his then-coworkers Lee Holdbrooks and Christoper Scott Yancy, and his former supervisor Terry Lee Jarvis.

Miller was to be executed in September 2022 via lethal injection, but it was called off after officials had trouble inserting an intravenous line to administer the fatal drugs and were concerned they would not be able to do so before the death warrant expired.

  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    Doctors wont do it which makes dosing tricky. More importantly drug companies won’t sell them the drugs because they don’t want their product to be associated with people being killed.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 months ago

      How does it make dosing tricky? Just give everybody a mega dose… what’s the worst that can happen, they die before you kill them?

      • oatscoop@midwest.social
        111·
        2 months ago

        “Tricky” means “ethical issues of someone who took an oath to heal and save lives doing the opposite.”

        • ipkpjersi
          11·
          2 months ago

          They were asking why is getting the dosing right important if the person is going to die anyway.