Jamie Mills was sentenced to death for the 2004 murders of Fred and Vera Hill. (Alabama Department of Corrections)
Alabama will attempt another execution four days after putting a person to death using nitrogen gas, the first such execution in history.
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office filed a motion Monday with the Alabama Supreme Court to have Jamie Mills executed using lethal injection for his role in the 2004 murders of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin in Marion County.
“There is no doubt that Mills committed those offenses,” the motion states. “As set out more fully below, Mills’s convictions and sentence are final because he has completed his direct appeal, state post-conviction review, and federal habeas review. Accordingly, it is time for this death sentence to be carried out.”
The request did not say why the state is pursuing lethal injection instead of nitrogen gas.
According to the filing, Mills and his common-law wife drove to the Hills’ residence, where the two let them in to make several phone calls. Afterward, the four of them went to the shed where they kept items to sell as part of a yard sale.