MONTGOMERY-Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced she has set the timeframe for the execution of Jamie Mills to occur beginning 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2024, and expiring Friday, May 31, 2024. The execution will be carried out by lethal injection.
The governor’s letter to the Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, as well as the Supreme Court’s
Jamie Ray Mills
order, are attached.
Mills was convicted of capital murder for the 2004 slaying of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin, a city of about 2,000 people in Marion County. Prosecutors said Mills and his wife went to the couple’s home where he beat the couple and stole $140 and medications.
Floyd Hill, 87, died from blunt and sharp-force wounds to his head and neck, and Vera Mills, 72, died from complications of head trauma 12 weeks after the crime, the attorney general’s office wrote in a court filing.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
March 20, 2024
1080350
Ex parte Jamie Ray Mills PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO
THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Jamie Ray Mills v. State
of Alabama) (Marion Circuit Court: CC-04-402; Criminal Appeals:
CR-06-2246).
ORDER
On January 29, 2024, the State of Alabama filed a motion
requesting that this Court, pursuant to Rule 8(d)(l), Ala. R. App. P., enter
an order authorizing the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections
to carry out Jamie Ray Mills’s sentence of death within a time frame set
by the Governor. Upon due consideration of such motion,
IT IS ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Commissioner of the
Department of Corrections is authorized to carry out Jamie Ray Mills’ s
sentence of death within a time frame set by the Governor of the State of
Alabama.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Governor shall set a time
frame , which shall not begin less than thirty (30) days from the date of
this Order, within which the Commissioner of the Department of
Corrections shall carry out Jamie Ray Mills’s sentence of death.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall
transmit forthwith a certified copy of this Order electronically or by
mailing a copy thereof by United States mail, postage prepaid, to the
following:
the attorney of record for Jamie Ray Mills;
the Governor of Alabama;
the Attorney General of Alabama;
the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections; the Clerk of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals; and the Clerk of the Marion Circuit Court.
This Order authorizing the Commissioner to carry out Jamie Ray
| Mills’s sentence of death constitutes the execution warrant for Jamie Ray Mills
Parker, C.J.. and Shaw, Wise, Bryan, Sellers, Mendheim,
Stewart, Mitchell, and Cook, JJ., concur.
I, Megan B. Rhodebeck, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama, do
hereby certify the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of the
judgment and order of the Supreme Court of Alabama regarding Jamie
Ray Mills as the same appears of record in this Court
Witness my hand and seal this 20th day of March, 2024
Meets Rhodebeck
CLERK OF COURT
SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
