There is only one survivor of the controversial lethal injection method.
Alan Eugene Miller's experience was torturous, according to his attorneys.
He said he was stabbed with a needle and hung from a gurney.
Alan Eugene Miller, the only living execution survivor, said that the lethal injection process was supposed to kill him.
"Despite this failed execution, the physical and mental torture it inflicted upon Mr. Miller, Defendants relentlessly seek to execute him again."
The execution of Miller, who was convicted of killing three people in 1999, was supposed to take place on September 22, but the Alabama Department of Correction had several challenges.
Miller's execution was put on hold by a federal judge after his attorneys claimed that he wanted to die by nitrogen hypoxia, a method of death in which a person is forced to breathe pure nitrogen instead of oxygen.
The US Supreme Court decided that his execution could go ahead.
By the time the execution was called off around midnight, Miller was hanging off the upright gurney, his hands and one foot, waiting to die. He had been stabbed repeatedly in his arms, hands, legs, and feet as administrators failed to find a vein to insert the drugs for over an hour.
Miller wanted to use nitrogen hypoxia as his method of death because he dislikes needles and people can't find his veins, according to the Associated Press.
Attorneys for Mr. Miller said in a motion that he was frightened about whether he was going to be killed and that he was horrified by the sight of state employees staring at him from the observation room. Some of Mr. Miller's wounds were bleeding.
The state is trying to set a new execution date.
Miller's attorneys did not reply immediately.
Since it was implemented in the US in the 70s, the lethal injection protocol has been the cause of bungled executions.
Alabama called off the execution of a man after he couldn't get a vein. The state failed to execute Joe Nathan James Jr.
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