Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.

Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said Miller’s execution would be carried out using nitrogen. Miller, now 59, was convicted of killing three people during a pair of 1999 workplace shootings in suburban Birmingham.

“The State of Alabama is prepared to carry out the execution of Miller’s sentence by means of nitrogen hypoxia,” the attorney general’s office wrote, adding that Miller has been on death row since 2000 and that it is time to carry out his sentence.

  • tygerprints
    10•4 months ago

    Those of you who read the news and watch it on TV know this already, but the execution last month by nitrogen gas was carried out AT THE REQUEST of the guy who was being executed. He wanted to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, it was something he felt strongly about.

    And according to the AG who witnessed the process, it went really smoothly and was much less horrific than many other methods of execution.

      • @Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
        6•4 months ago

        I imagine none, unless you try to speak. They both do the same thing. Displace oxygen. Your body can’t detect either element.

      • @ryannathans@aussie.zone
        3•4 months ago

        Very little, only that helium is often supplied premixed with a little CO2 so you feel awful and stop instead of killing yourself

      • tygerprints
        1•4 months ago

        Doesn’t seem like there would be too much difference, maybe one would take longer than the other? I’m not sure.