Chilling eight-word final statement words from inmate before his execution by nitrogen hypoxia

An Alabama death row inmate gave a chilling eight-word final statement in the moments before his execution by nitrogen hypoxia.
Alan Eugene Miller, 59, became the second person to die from the controversial method on Thursday night, September 26. He had been on death row for decades for killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings in 1999.
Protesting his innocence until the end, his final words were: 'I didn't do anything to be in here.'
He added: 'I didn't do anything to be on death row.'
Alabama corrections officials then pumped nitrogen gas into a mask that covered Miller's face from his forehead to his chin, forcing him to shake and tremble on the gurney for about two minutes.
That was followed by about six minutes of periodic gasping breaths before he finally went still.
Miller was finally pronounced dead at around 6.38pm, Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said at an ensuing news conference, noting the two minutes of shaking was to be expected.

'There's going to be involuntary body movements as the body is depleted of oxygen, so that is nothing we did not expect,' Hamm said.
'Everything went according to plan and according to our protocol, so it went just as we had planned. Continue reading
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