Alan Eugene Miller became the second man in the nation executed by nitrogen gas Thursday when the state of Alabama put him to death for 1999 Shelby County triple homicide, after failing to do so by lethal injection in 2022. Miller gasped, shook and ...

"I didn't do anything to be in here," Miller said in his final words, the AP reported. His words were at times muffled by the blue-rimmed gas mask that covered his face from forehead to chin. Miller asked his family and friends to "take care" of someone, but it was not clear whose name he said.

Miller’s sisters, his brother, brother-in-law, a spiritual advisor and two of his attorneys spent the day with him. Throughout the day, he ate two