Alabama to Proceed with Second Execution Using Nitrogen Hypoxia

Despite controversy and a lawsuit alleging the method is painful, Alabama is set to use nitrogen hypoxia for the execution of Alan Eugene Miller.

Alabama Attorney General's office has requested the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller using nitrogen hypoxia.
This follows the first execution using the method, which was criticized after the inmate convulsed and gasped for air.
Miller, convicted of killing three people in 1999, had a previous execution attempt by lethal injection aborted.
Advocates and a lawsuit claim nitrogen hypoxia causes prolonged, painful death, calling it 'execution by suffocation'.
Other states, including Louisiana and Ohio, are considering adopting nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method.