Alabama to execute man for '94 killing of fast-food workers
(AP) — Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate for the shooting deaths of three fast food restaurant workers during a 1994 robbery.
Melson's attorneys asked appellate courts to halt the execution in order to review the constitutionality of Alabama's lethal injection protocol.
Some states have turned to the sedative as other lethal injection drugs became difficult to obtain.
The State, the victims' families, and the surviving victim in this case have waited long enough for justice to be delivered, the attorney general's office wrote in a Wednesday court filing with the 11th Circuit.