Triple murderer Alan Eugene Miller becomes second person executed with ‘brutal’ nitrogen gas method in 8-minute ordeal

A TRIPLE murderer has been executed using the controversial nitrogen gas method.

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, took eight minutes to die after a previous attempt to execute him by lethal injection failed in 2022.

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Alan Eugene Miller has been executed using nitrogen[/caption]

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Miller being escorted away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, Aug. 5, 1999[/caption]

It is the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the US.

Miller was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time at a south Alabama prison.

His final words, muffled by the blue-rimmed gas mask that covered his face from forehead to chin, were: “I didn’t do anything to be in here.”

Miller shook and trembled on the gurney for about two minutes with his body at times pulling against the restraints.

That was followed by about six minutes of periodic gulping breaths before he became still.

Miller was convicted of killing three men Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis in 1999.

Despite his plea of innocence before he died, witnesses at Miller’s trial had expressed no doubt about his guilt.