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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Alabama suspends execution after inmate demands novel way to die

AP

The state of Alabama can’t execute a death row prisoner via lethal injection, a federal court ruled this week, holding that the man elected to die by nitrogen gas using a process the state hadn’t adequately finalised.

Alan Eugene Miller, a former delivery driver, was sentenced to death after killing three people on the job in 1999 in the city of Birmingham.

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