Alabama halts Alan Miller's execution, citing shortage of time and trouble accessing his veins

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Source: CBS

Full headline: Alabama halts Alan Miller's execution, citing shortage of time before deadline and trouble accessing his veins


Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of a man convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting because of time concerns and trouble accessing his veins.

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after determining they couldn't get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline. Prison officials made the decision at about 11:30 p.m., he said.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to begin.

"Due to time constraints resulting from the lateness of the court proceedings, the execution was called off once it was determined the condemned inmate's veins could not be accessed in accordance with our protocol before the expiration of the death warrant," Hamm said...

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alan-miller-execution-halted-time-shortage-veins-access/

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[Walleye]

1. Grotesque

[Bayard]

2. His veins could not be accessed......

There is something intrinsically wrong about that sentence.

[jmowreader]

6. That happens sometimes, for two reasons

One is the inmate has a history of shooting up illegal drugs and the repeated injections have damaged the veins in the arm he used to get high with.

The other can be explained by reading the article attached: the inmate is shaped like Donald Trump and his veins are buried under a layer of fat.

Strangely enough, there was a short period when Alabama allowed inmates to apply to be executed with nitrogen, and this individual did so.

On the other hand, this is not a person worthy of sorrow: three people called him gay and he took offense to that, so he killed them all with a pistol.

[Rustynaerduwell]

3. This is torture.

There is no other word that fits.

[heckles65]

4. If an execution fails --

traditionally, it's considered that God intervened to save the life of the prisoner. I wonder if that's what Alabama will find here.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. There is not much humanity much less God in capital punishment.

Killing without an exigent reason is just wrong.