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After nation’s 1st nitrogen gas execution, Alabama set to give man lethal injection for 2 slayings

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By KIM CHANDLER
Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple to death 20 years ago to steal prescription drugs and $140 from their home. Jamie Ray Mills is scheduled to be put to death Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. While Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas earlier this year, a lethal injection is planned for Mills and remains the state’s main execution method. He was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 slayings of 87-year-old Floyd Hill and his 72-year-old wife Vera Hill. Prosecutors said the victims were attacked with a hammer, tire tool and machete.

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