Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced last month that the state plans to kill three people in the next three months. Alan Miller is scheduled to be executed this Thursday, Derrick Dearman on October 17, and Carey Grayson on November 21. The plan is to kill Miller and Grayson with nitrogen gas and Dearman by lethal injection.
This will be the second time the state has attempted to kill 59-year-old Alan Miller. The first time was in September 2022, when the execution team tried for about three hours to find a vein for their lethal injection drugs. They failed and were forced to abandon the killing because the death warrant was expiring. In the aftermath, a judge granted a defense motion to allow Miller’s lawyers to take still photographs and videos with their cell phones of Miller’s injuries, bring “evidence stickers and rulers,” and retain a doctor to examine Miller and document those findings.
Earlier this month, Miller’s lawsuit attempting to delay his execution by nitrogen gas was dismissed after the AG’s office announced that it had reached a confidential agreement with Miller, the Alabama Reflector reported. The terms of the agreement were not released.
If all three executions proceed, Alabama will have killed six people this year, the highest number of executions since 2011, when it also killed six, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.