A death row inmate convicted of killing three coworkers over rumors about his sexuality is set to be executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday, making him just the second inmate in the United States to face the controversial method described by one witness as “horrific.”
Alan Eugene Miller , 59, was convicted of murdering Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Christopher Yancy in two workplace shootings on the morning of Aug. 5, 1999, in the suburban Birmingham city of Pelham.
If his execution moves forward as expected, he will become the fourth inmate executed in Alabama in 2024 and the 18th in the nation . He’s also among five men being executed in the U.S. in just a six-day period: South Carolina executed Freddie Owens on Friday, and on Tuesday Missouri executed Marcellus Williams less than an hour before Texas executed Travis James Mullis .
Miller was supposed to be executed by lethal injection in September 2022 but staff could not find his veins for an IV line before the death warrant expired, therefore the inmate was poked with needles for over an hour while vertically strapped to a gurney.