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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Alabama executes death-row prisoner with nitrogen gas

Police escort a man in a red jumpsuit.
Alan Miller in Alabama in 1999. Photograph: Dave Martin/AP

Alabama has carried out the second execution in the US using the controversial method of nitrogen gas, an experimental technique for humans that veterinarians have deemed unacceptable in the US and Europe for the euthanasia of most animals.

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6.38pm local time at a south Alabama prison.

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