He was convicted of murder in 2007 for killing an elderly couple during a robbery
An American convicted of death for the 2004 murder of an elderly couple is expected to be executed tonight in the state of Alabama (southern USA).
Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the slayings of Floyd Hill, 87, and his wife, Vera Hill, 72, during a robbery, killings he carried out using a machete weapon and blunt objects, including a hammer.
His wife Jo Ann Mills, who testified against him at his trial, is serving a life sentence for the same events.
THE Jamie Ray Mills is expected to be executed later today by lethal injection at Atmore Correctional Facility. If carried out, it would be the second execution since the beginning of the year in Alabama and the sixth in a row in the US, in addition to the one that was aborted on February 28 in Idaho (northwest), because the death row inmate was not given the lethal substance within the legally prescribed period.
The previous execution in Alabama and the first in 2024 in the US was that of Kenneth Eugene Smith, by nitrogen inhalation, a world first which the UN denounced, comparing this execution method to a form of “torture”.
In total, 24 executions took place in the US in 2023, all using lethal injection.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. Six other states (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee) maintain a moratorium on executions by governor’s order.
Source :Skai
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