A Death Row killer has survived an agonising, botched execution that saw desperate jail staff jab at his foot with the lethal injection.
Convicted murderer Alan Eugene Miller has since filed a federal lawsuit after claiming prison workers poked him with needles in a "botched" execution.
It comes as medical staff found it difficult to find a vein to inject the Death Row inmate, with Miller's attorneys claiming that they even tried his right foot as a spot for the lethal injection to be injected.
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Miller is said to have had his "entire body shook in the restraints" as though he had been electrocuted.
Miller's team, who are seeking a ban on executing Miller in any way that is not his preferred and requested method of nitrogen hypoxia, believe the state is violating his eighth amendment right.
Such a right would protect the inmate from cruel punishment, while authorities in Alabama are already searching for a new execution date for Miller, The Mirror reported.
In a complaint issued by the Death Row inmate's legal team, his lawyers alleged the murderer had experienced "mental and physical anguish".
They said: "Mr Miller could feel his veins being pushed around inside his body by needles. Nauseous, disoriented, confused, and fearful about whether he was about to be killed… blood was leaking from some of [his] wounds."
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The failed execution comes after medical staff were unable to find a vein 18 different times for the Death Row killer, who was charged and sentenced to execution for the workplace murder of three men.
An embarrassing turn of events means that even after his execution and final meal, Miller remains living.
Commissioner of the Department of Corrections John Hamm blamed "time constraints resulting from the lateness of the court proceedings" as reason for the delays.
Those court delays are said to have been over the alleged submission from Miller of a specific way of being executed, ruling him out of lethal injection.
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