Doyle Lee Hamm was charged in the murder of a motel clerk during a robbery in 1987.
Now, the Alabama death row inmate has died after a lengthy fight with cancer.
Hamm had lived although he was supposed to be executed in 2018. He was scheduled to be put to death twice; however, doctors couldn’t find a vein in his body that would work when injecting him with the deadly chemicals.
He had been placed on a gurney for two-and-a-half hours while doctors attempted to find a different method of injecting the drug into his body.
In the end, officials agreed to stop efforts to execute Hamm. However, he was to stay on death row for life.
In 2014, Hamm discovered that he had B-cell lymphoma. Alabama authorities said that his death was a result of “complications related to a terminal illness.”
A cause of death will be determined after an autopsy is performed.
