The execution date of an Alabama prisoner who killed and robbed an elderly couple
n execution date of May 30 has been set by Alabama for a man convicted of killing a couple during a robbery in 2004.
The date of Jamie Mills’, 50, execution by lethal injection was determined by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. Last Monday, the Alabama Supreme Court gave the governor permission to set up aying of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin, a Marion County city of approximately 2,000 residents. According to the prosecution, Mills and his spouse proceeded to the couple’s house, where he beat them and took prescription drugs and $140.
Jamie Mills is pictured in this undated image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections. On March 20, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court gave the state’s governor the go-ahead to schedule Jamie Mills’ execution. Mills was found guilty of killing Floyd and Vera Hill in a Marion County robbery in 2004.(Department of Corrections in Alabama via AP)
The attorney general’s office stated in a court document that Floyd Hill, 87, passed away from blunt and sharp-force injuries to his head and neck, while Vera Mills, 72, died from complications resulting from head trauma 12 weeks after the crime.
In order to pursue a pending allegation of prosecutorial misconduct in the case, Mills’ attorneys had requested the Alabama Supreme Court to reject their request for an execution date.
The wife of Mills was spared from a potential death sentence thanks to a plea agreement that the prosecutors withheld, according to a petition filed by Mills’ counsel with a Marion County judge in March. She was the principal prosecution witness used in Mills’ trial. The existence of a pretrial agreement was denied by the attorney general’s office.
which earlier this year carried out the first nitrogen gas execution in the country, says it intends to execute Mills via lethal injection.
