After nation’s 1st nitrogen gas execution, Alabama set to give man lethal injection for 2 killings

Published May 30, 2024 3:20 AM

By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man convicted of killing an elderly couple 20 years ago to steal prescription drugs and $140 from their home. Jamie Ray Mills was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas earlier this year though lethal injection remains the state’s main execution method. Mills was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 killings of 87-year-old Floyd Hill and his 72-year-old wife, Vera Hill. Prosecutors said the victims were attacked at their home with a hammer, machete and a tire tool. The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday afternoon to intervene.

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