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.

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    3 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?

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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months ago

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