Alabama has set a May 30 execution date for a man convicted of murdering a couple during a robbery in 2004.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has set a date for Jamie Mills, 50, to be executed by lethal injection. The Alabama Supreme Court last week gave the governor the power to set an execution date.
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Mills was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murders of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guinn, a city of about 2,000 people in Marion County. Prosecutors said Mills and his wife went to the couple’s home, where they beat the couple and stole $140 and medication.
This undated photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Jamie Mills. On March 20, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the governor of Alabama to set an execution date for death row inmate Jamie Mills. Mills was convicted of killing Floyd and Vera Hill during a 2004 robbery in Marion County. (Alabama Department of Corrections, Associated Press)
The attorney general’s office said in a court filing that Floyd Hill, 87, died from blunt and sharp wounds to the head and neck, and Vera Mills, 72, died from complications of head trauma. He died 12 weeks after the crime.
Mills’ attorneys had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to deny the request for an execution date while pursuing pending claims of prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
In a March motion to a Marion County judge, Mills’ attorneys wrote that prosecutors concealed a plea deal with Mills’ wife that avoided the possibility of the death penalty. She was a key prosecution witness in Mr. Mills’ trial. The Attorney General’s Office disputed that there was a pretrial agreement.
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Alabama, which carried out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution earlier this year, announced plans to execute Mills by lethal injection.
