ACTION 8 UPDATE: Jamie Mills executed for killing elderly couple in 2004
The state of Alabama has executed a convicted killer by lethal injection for the killing of an elderly couple in Marion County in 2004.
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Man convicted of beating elderly couple to death in Guin scheduled to be executed Thursday
Jamie Ray Mills is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Holman Prison in Escambia County.
Execution date set for man convicted of killing couple during Marion County robbery
Gov. Kay Ivey has set an execution date for a man convicted in the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery in Marion County.
Lawsuit: First nitrogen execution was a “botched” human experiment
An Alabama death row inmate has filed a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas executions, arguing that the first person in the nation put to death by that method shook violently for several minutes in “a human experiment that officials botched miserably.”
Federal judge: Alabama can execute inmate with nitrogen gas; appeal likely
Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas later this month, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
ACTION 8 UPDATE: Execution date set for Kenneth Smith
Gov. Kay Ivey has set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith.
Lawsuit: Alabama’s plan for nation’s first execution by nitrogen “hostile to religion”
Rev. Jeff Hood says restrictions would interfere with his ability to minister to Kenneth Smith before he is put to death by nitrogen gas.
Alabama inmate asks judge to block first nitrogen gas execution
Gov. Kay Ivey this month set a Jan. 25 execution date for Smith using nitrogen hypoxia.
Alabama inmate executed for the shooting death of man in 1993 Marshall County robbery
An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection.
Alabama Supreme Court: State can execute inmate with nitrogen gas
A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not been used.
