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Alabama death row inmate Alan Miller claims to have endured 'torture' during execution attempt
Fox News
An Alabama death row inmate claimed to endure "torture" after prison staff failed to find a vein during the first execution attempt. His attorneys are asking to block a second attempt.
Two men in scrubs used needles to repeatedly probe Miller's arms, legs, feet and hands, at one point using a cell phone flashlight to help their search for a vein, according to the Oct. 6 court filing. The attorneys called Miller the "only living execution survivor in the United States" and said Alabama subjected Miller "to precisely the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain that the Eighth Amendment was intended to prohibit."
Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to set a new execution date for Miller, saying the execution was canceled only because of a time issue as the state faced a midnight deadline to get the lethal injection underway.