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   On 09 Apr 2022, Wi1liam T T  posted some   
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   > Kill these assholes the same way they killed their victims.  Fair is   
   > fair.   
      
   Alabama has asked the state's Supreme Court to approve a date for death   
   row inmate Alan Eugene Miller's execution, which would be carried out   
   using nitrogen hypoxia.   
      
   The request, filed Wednesday, comes just under a month after Alabama   
   executed Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia, the first time the   
   controversial and widely-contested death penalty method was used in the   
   United States. Both Smith and Miller had initially been scheduled to die   
   by lethal injection, but Smith's first execution attempt was botched and   
   Miller's was called off.   
      
   Miller's execution was originally scheduled to take place on Sept. 22,   
   2022, but it was called off when officials determined they couldn't   
   complete the execution before the midnight deadline. Miller then filed a   
   federal lawsuit arguing against death by lethal injection, which the   
   Alabama Department of Corrections had tried to use in the first   
   execution attempt, according to the suit.   
      
   Miller said that when prison staff tried to find a vein, they poked him   
   with needles for over an hour and at one point left him hanging   
   vertically as he lay strapped to a gurney.   
      
   The state's highest court in Sept. 2022 ruled that Miller's execution   
   could not take place by any means other than that of nitrogen hypoxia,   
   and the Alabama Department of Corrections eventually agreed despite   
   having earlier challenged the court's injunction.   
      
   Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in Wednesday's filing the   
   state is "prepared to carry out the execution of Miller's sentence by   
   means of nitrogen hypoxia," adding, "it is once more the appropriate   
   time for the execution of his sentence."   
      
   Miller, now 59, was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999   
   workplace rampage in suburban Birmingham in which he killed Terry   
   Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy.   
      
   Alabama is one of three states that allows nitrogen hypoxia as an   
   alternative to lethal injection and other, more traditional capital   
   punishment methods. Oklahoma and Mississippi are the only other states   
   that have authorized executions by nitrogen hypoxia.   
      
   Its application inside the execution chamber in Alabama has been   
   criticized by some as experimental and, potentially, unnecessarily   
   painful and dangerous for the condemned person and others in the room.   
   United Nations experts cited concerns about the possibility of grave   
   suffering that execution by pure nitrogen inhalation may cause. They   
   said there was no scientific evidence to prove otherwise.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-nitrogen-hypoxia-execution-alan-euge   
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