An Alabama man received a lethal injection today for the killing of an elderly couple in 2004, the first inmate put to death by the state since it became the first in the US to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas months ago.Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6.26pm Thursday local time (9.26am Friday AEST) after a three-drug injection at the William C Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said. Lethal injection remains Alabama's default method of execution unless an inmate requests nitrogen gas or the electric chair to carry out the death sentence.
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