Opioid crisis continues to impact capital punishment in Alabama

On May 30, Jamie Mills will be the next man Alabama executioners will pick and poke with a needle — possibly pricking him for hours, and perhaps even slicing into him with a knife — in a ghoulish search for a vein by which to pump him full of lethal chemicals. A highly secretive protocol will be deployed to accomplish this uncivilized and unholy “task” — killing a man — one Alabama has a long history of bungling, accumulating a record of “botched” barbaric executions. Alabama’s history of torture, as...