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An anesthesiologist at Emory University Hospital described the execution method as “death by asphyxiation. This is choking someone to death with a gas. Why anyone would think that would be something pleasant or painless is really beyond my understanding.”
Alabama's attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to set the execution date of a man to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia after an effort to carry out his sentence by lethal injection was called off following last-minute appeals and problems inserting an IV line.
Alabama has set a November execution date for a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife.
Prison authorities called off the execution of Alan Eugene Miller after it became clear that they would not be able to carry out the state killing before the death warrant expired at midnight.
The state of Alabama is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an inmate who's trying to halt his lethal injection later this month by arguing officials lost important paperwork.