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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alabama asks court to let it carry out lethal injection

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to let it proceed Thursday night with the lethal injection of an inmate who claims the state lost his paperwork selecting an alternative execution method.

Alan Miller, 57, was convicted of killing three people in a 1999 workplace shooting and was scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday until the execution was blocked by a judge earlier this week. Alabama asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift that injunction.

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