An execution date has been set for Alabama death row prisoner Jamie Mills on May 30, 2024 for his alleged 2004 murders of Vera and Floyd Hill of Guin.

UPDATE (April 22, 2024): New evidence shows that Jamie Mills, the next person scheduled to be executed in the United States (Alabama, on May 30), was wrongfully convicted and shouldn't be executed.  Equal Justice Initiative attorneys have filed motions to halt his execution.  

According to this document, the State of Alabama is moving forward despite new evidence that State prosecutors obtained Mill's conviction illegally by falsely telling the judge and jury that they had not made a deal to secure the testimony of its star witness. Read more from the Equal Justice Initiative here.

UPDATE (May 29, 2024): Motions for stay DENIED by Federal District Court and that order has been upheld. According to EJI: The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied Mr. Mills a certificate of appealability from the district court’s order denying relief and denied his motion to stay his execution. Mr. Mills is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Case-specific points of concern:

1). Ineffective assistance of trial counsel

2). Prosecutorial misconduct - New evidence has been discovered that State prosecutors obtained his conviction illegally by falsely telling the judge and jury that they had not made a deal to secure the testimony of its star witness.

3). Mr. Mills had a dysfunctional childhood. Both of his parents were addicted to methamphetamine and used drugs throughout his childhood; Mills used methamphetamine for the first time when he was a teenager.

4). Alabama is failing to reveal its execution protocol including the expiration date of the execution drugs and has a history of botched executions.

5). Alabama is failing to reveal the source of its execution drugs.

6). Alabama still uses a method of execution with drugs considered by some States to be in violation of the Constitution and ethically, morally wrong.

7). Alabama ought to delay all executions to allow for a thorough independent study of its capital punishment process and consider the serious objections raised as to how it administers the death penalty.

You can find these talking points at: http://www.phadp.org/

Please sign the petition asking Governor Ivey to do everything within her power to stop this execution, including issuing a stay, and seeking a path to clemency in the case. Unless the execution is halted, please plan to join the petition delivery and rally at noon CDT on May 28, 2024.

We are concerned that while the vast majority of states with capital punishment continue on a downward trend of executions, Alabama has continued to go against trend by carrying on with scheduled execution dates.   Additionally, Alabama has repeatedly shown that it is not capable of carrying out executions, as it is botching its lethal injection process - amounting to cruel punishment and the torture of prisoners.