Alabama has scheduled a May 30 execution date for a man convicted of killing a couple during a robbery in 2004.
Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama will execute Jamie Mills, 50, by lethal injection on the chosen date. Last Monday, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the governor to establish an execution date.
The jury found Mills guilty of capital murder in the 2004 killings of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin, a city with approximately 2,000 inhabitants in Marion County. Prosecutors said Mills and his wife went to the couple’s house, where he attacked them and took $140 and prescriptions.
Floyd Hill, 87, died from blunt and sharp-force wounds to his head and neck, and Vera Mills, 72, died from head trauma complications 12 weeks after the crime, according to a court filing from the attorney general’s office.
Mills’ attorneys had requested the Alabama Supreme Court dismiss the execution date request while they pursued a pending claim of prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
Mills’ counsel claimed in a March appeal to a Marion County judge that prosecutors concealed a plea agreement with Mills’ wife that protected her from the death penalty. She was the main prosecution witness against Mills throughout his trial. The Attorney General’s Office denied that there was a pretrial arrangement.
Alabama, which carried out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution earlier this year, says it will execute Mills via lethal injection.
