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Alabama’s string of troubled lethal injections, which worsened late Thursday as prison workers aborted another execution because of a problem with intravenous lines, is unprecedented nationally, a group that tracks capital punishment said Friday. The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state’s second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in…

Alabama judges are no longer allowed to sentence an inmate to death if a jury recommends a life sentence, but the 2017 change was not retroactive.

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically on a gurney before state officials made the decision to call off the execution.

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically on a gurney before state officials made the decision to call off the execution.

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically on a gurney before state officials made the decision to call off the execution.

Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller say prison officials were "stabbing around his veins" for over an hour and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before...

Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller say prison officials were "stabbing around his veins" for over an hour and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before...

Alan Eugene Miller said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month.

Alan Eugene Miller, 57, said staff struggled to locate a vein to inject the lethal drugs and left him strapped to a gurney before officials made the decision to abort the execution attempt