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Opioid crisis continues to impact capital punishment in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER
On May 30, Jamie Mills will be the next man Alabama executioners will pick and poke with a needle — possibly pricking him for hours, and perhaps even slicing into him with a knife — in a ghoulish search for a vein by which to pump him full of lethal chemicals. A highly secretive protocol will be deployed to accomplish this uncivilized and unholy “task” — killing a man — one Alabama has a long history of bungling, accumulating a record of “botched” barbaric executions.
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