Nitrogen hypoxia, which is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen, has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions but never used.
to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
Convicted in a triple killing in 1999, Miller is trying to block his execution at Holman Prison. The disclosure about the possibility of using the new method came during a court hearing on Miller's claim that prison staff several years ago lost his paperwork. In it, he requested nitrogen as his execution method rather than lethal injection.
Miller described how he disliked needles because of painful attempts at drawing blood. He said nitrogen gas sounded like the nitrous oxide gas used at dentist offices, and that seemed better than lethal injection.The state, attempting to cast doubt on the inmate's story about the form, asked him if he could describe anything about the officer who distributed the paper, but Miller said he couldn't.
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