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Alabama Executes Alan Miller, 1600th Person Executed in Modern Era of the Death Penalty
Updated: Sep 26, 2024 8:03 pm
On September 26, 2024, Alabama executed Alan Miller, making him the 1600th person executed since 1976.
Alan Miller was executed by nitrogen hypoxia after surviving a botched lethal injection on September 22, 2022. He was the second person ever executed by that method; the other, Kenneth Smith, was also executed in Alabama after surviving a botched lethal injection.
Mr. Miller was the fourth person executed in three days in the U.S., despite public opinion polls showing growing concerns about the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty and declining support for its use. The people executed this week were Marcellus Williams in Missouri, Travis Mullis in Texas, Emmanuel Littlejohn in Oklahoma, and Alan Miller in Alabama.
See the Death Penalty Information Center’s media advisory on the 1600th execution.
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