A mentally disturbed truck driver convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting rampage in Alabama more than two decades ago is set to be put to death later this year. alnews alcrime alabamanewsnetwork
The Alabama Supreme Court clerk’s office announced the scheduled execution date of September 22 for Alan Eugene Miller, 57, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the slayings, which occurred in Shelby County in 1999.
Miller could still mount a legal challenge to block his planned execution by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore. While the prison system has said it is developing nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative way to put people to death, the state isn’t yet setting execution dates for inmates who choose that untested method.
An executive entering Ferguson Enterprises in Pelham on Aug. 5, 1999, heard noises and saw Miller, a delivery driver, leaving before finding Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy fatally wounded inside, court documents show. Miller drove off and then showed up a few miles away at Post Airgas, where Terry Jarvis was killed and Miller previously had worked.Testimony indicated that Miller was delusional and believed the men were spreading rumors about him, including one by Jarvis that he was gay.
Given the amount of evidence that prosecutors compiled, the defense concentrated on attempting to spare Miller’s life at sentencing rather than convincing jurors of his innocence. Jurors convicted Miller after 20 minutes of deliberation and then recommended a death sentence, which a judge imposed under Alabama’s capital punishment law at the time.
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