Alabama is set to perform the second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the United States on Thursday.
Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of his then-coworkers Lee Holdbrooks and Christoper Scott Yancy, and his former supervisor Terry Lee Jarvis.
Miller was to be executed in September 2022 via lethal injection, but it was called off after officials had trouble inserting an intravenous line to administer the fatal drugs and were concerned they would not be able to do so before the death warrant expired.
I mean, killing prisoners is cruel and unusual in a civilised society.
Cruel yes, unusual not by definition. It’s precedented and quite usual.
Indeed. We’re definitely a fucked up bunch of vindictive asshats here…
Our whole system of judgment and punishment is purely punitive, the pain is the point. There’s nothing “corrective” about our “correction facilities” (jails/prisons)