Alabama’s corrections department has bungled the procedure on three recent occasions, with IV teams failing on hours at end, adding immense distress to a difficult situation. This article contains descriptions of physical harm
Miller’s legal team had flagged up in litigation that doctors had struggled to gain access to his veins throughout his adult life. In fact, the prisoner was so worried that lethal injection would go horribly wrong that he opted – as was his right under Alabama law – to die by lethal gas, via nitrogen hypoxia.Miller’s IV team – Green Scrubs and Aqua Scrubs this time – proceeded to make what his lawyers described as a “tour” of the prisoner’s body.
What Alabama did to Joe Nathan James, they then did to Alan Miller and Kenny Smith – and guess what, it failed both timesAfter the failed execution attempt, the authorities kept at him, setting a new death warrant for June 2020. In recent months problems with IV lines have struck several death penalty states. It took Texas almost two hours to kill the convicted murderer Stephen Barbee on 16 November – the day before Smith’s ordeal in Alabama. Barbee was disabled andOn the same day, Arizona struggled to insert IVs into the double murderer Murray Hooper and officials had to cut into his femoral artery.
Zivot linked Alabama’s repeated recent blunders to secrecy. “When things go wrong in industries that require safety – nuclear power, say, or the airlines – detailed reviews are conducted in full public view. But what Alabama did to Joe Nathan James, they then did to Alan Miller and Kenny Smith – and guess what, it failed both times.
Bernard Harcourt has also seen the results of a botched procedure in Alabama up close. A Columbia University professor and death penalty lawyer, Harcourt represented Doyle Hamm, who on 22 February 2018 became the first Alabama prisoner toHamm was terminally ill with lymphoma at the time, and died of his illness in prison three years later. The fact that he had terminal cancer did not deter the state from trying to kill him.
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