Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller say prison officials were 'stabbing around his veins' for over an hour and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before calling off the execution.
Miller said he was led into the execution chamber at 10 p.m., about an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had been blocking the lethal injunction, and was strapped to the gurney at about 10:15 p.m.
The three men in scrubs stopped their probing and left the chamber after there was a loud knock on a death chamber window from the state's observation room, according to the court filing. A prison officer then raised the gurney to a vertical position. Miller said the wall clock read 11:40 p.m. and he estimated that he hung there for about 20 minutes before he was let down and told that his execution was cancelled for the evening.
Miller was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999 workplace rampage in which he killed Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy.
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