ATMORE, Ala.
— An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the killing of an elderly couple in 2004, the first inmate put to death by the state since it became the first in the nation to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas months ago.
“Tonight, two decades after he committed these murders, Jamie Mills has paid the price for his heinous crimes. I pray for the victims and their loved ones as they continue to grieve," Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. As the drugs flowed, Mills appeared to quickly lose consciousness as a spiritual adviser prayed at the foot of the gurney in the execution chamber.
Floyd Hill was the primary caregiver for his wife, who was diabetic and in poor health. He kept her medications in a tackle box in the couple’s kitchen. The Hills regularly held yard sales to supplement their income. When the couple’s granddaughter couldn’t reach them, officers arrived to find them in pools of blood in the backyard shed where they stored items for yard sales.
JoAnn Mills became the key witness against her common-law husband. She testified that after staying up all night smoking methamphetamine, her husband took her along to the victims' home where she testified she saw her husband repeatedly strike the couple in the backyard shed, court documents indicate.
The Equal Justice Initiative in a statement after the execution said prosecutors “lied, deceived and misrepresented the reliability of the evidence against Jamie Mills for 17 years.”
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