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Jamie Ray Mills, 50, is scheduled to be put to death after he was convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple 20 years ag
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/alabama-lethal-injectionJamie Ray Mills, 50, is scheduled to be put to death after he was convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple 20 years ago
Associated Press
Thu 30 May 2024 08.35 EDT
Alabama is set to execute a man on Thursday evening who was convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple to death 20 years ago to steal prescription drugs and $140 from their home.
Jamie Ray Mills, 50, is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. It will be Alabama’s first execution since the state conducted the US’s first execution using nitrogen gas in January. Lethal injection remains the state’s main execution method unless an inmate has requested nitrogen.
Mills was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 killings of Floyd Hill, 87, and his 72-year-old wife, Vera Hill, in Guin, about 80 miles (130km) north-west of Birmingham. Prosecutors said Mills and his wife went to the couple’s home where he attacked them with a hammer, tire tool and machete.
Mills, who maintained his innocence at his 2007 trial, has asked the US supreme court to intervene. His attorneys argued newly obtained evidence shows the prosecution lied about having a plea agreement with Mills’s wife to spare her from the death penalty if she testified against her husband. The office of Steve Marshall, the Alabama attorney general, asked the justices to let the execution proceed, arguing there was no question about Mills’s guilt.
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Associated Press
Thu 30 May 2024 08.35 EDT
Alabama is set to execute a man on Thursday evening who was convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple to death 20 years ago to steal prescription drugs and $140 from their home.
Jamie Ray Mills, 50, is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. It will be Alabama’s first execution since the state conducted the US’s first execution using nitrogen gas in January. Lethal injection remains the state’s main execution method unless an inmate has requested nitrogen.
Mills was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 killings of Floyd Hill, 87, and his 72-year-old wife, Vera Hill, in Guin, about 80 miles (130km) north-west of Birmingham. Prosecutors said Mills and his wife went to the couple’s home where he attacked them with a hammer, tire tool and machete.
Mills, who maintained his innocence at his 2007 trial, has asked the US supreme court to intervene. His attorneys argued newly obtained evidence shows the prosecution lied about having a plea agreement with Mills’s wife to spare her from the death penalty if she testified against her husband. The office of Steve Marshall, the Alabama attorney general, asked the justices to let the execution proceed, arguing there was no question about Mills’s guilt.
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