Months After Nation’s First Nitrogen Gas Execution, Alabama Gives Man Lethal Injection for 2 Killings

Months After Nation’s First Nitrogen Gas Execution, Alabama Gives Man Lethal Injection for 2 Killings
Jamie Mills. Alabama Department of Corrections via AP
The Associated Press
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ATMORE, Ala.—An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the 2004 deaths of an elderly couple who police said were attacked with a hammer, machete, and tire tool during a robbery at their home.

Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said.