Mills and his wife, Joann, went to the Guin home of Vera Hill, 72, and Floyd Hill, 87, in June 2004 asking to make a phone call, court records and media accounts say. Mills was 30 at the time.

Married for 55 years, Floyd and Vera Hill were devoted to each other, with the sprightly 87-year-old Floyd acting as caretaker for 72-year-old Vera, who was diabetic and in poor health.

Lethal injection remains Alabama’s default execution method unless a condemned inmate requests nitrogen gas or the electric chair. Mills was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Floyd ...

Mills was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Floyd Hill, 87, and his wife Vera Hill, 72. Prosecutors said they were attacked on June 24, 2004, at their home in Guin about 80 miles (130 ...

Jamie Ray Mills, 50, had spent 20 years behind bars for the killings of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin. He was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at a state prison in Atmore.

Mills was convicted of capital murder for the deaths of Floyd Hill, 87, and Vera Hill, 72, according to the AP. The Hills were attacked on June 24, 2004, with a machete, a hammer and a tire iron ...

Floyd Hill died from blunt- and sharp-force wounds to the head and neck and Vera Hill died about 12 weeks later from complications of head trauma, according to court filings.