Another day, another two executions completed in two states

As noted in this post, on Tuesday of this week, Missouri and Texas completed executions of condemned murderers.  Today, it was Alabama and Oklahoma carrying out executions.  Here are press accounts:

From AL.com, “Alabama inmate Alan Miller executed with nitrogen gas Thursday for 1999 shootings“:

An Alabama Death Row inmate, convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting, was executed Thursday evening. He is the second inmate in the country to be executed using nitrogen gas.

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was executed at 6 p.m. at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The prison, located just north of the Florida border, is the only facility in the state equipped with an execution chamber and where most of the state’s death row inmates are housed.

From USA Today, “Emmanuel Littlejohn executed in Oklahoma despite clemency recommendation from state board“:

Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed by the state of Oklahoma Thursday morning in the shooting death of a beloved convenience store owner, despite a recommendation from a clemency board that his life should be spared.

Littlejohn was convicted of the 1992 murder of Kenneth Meers in a robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn had admitted to his role in the robbery but insisted until his death that an accomplice was the one to pull the trigger.

Littlejohn’s execution was the fourth in the U.S. in less than a week and comes just hours before Alabama is set to use nitrogen gas to execute Alan Eugene Miller on Thursday evening.