A death row killer had a huge last meal including meatloaf and chuckwagon steak without knowing whether he was going to be executed on Thursday night.
Alan Eugene Miller claimed a fear of needles that led to the halting of the execution by lethal injection at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.
But although the US Supreme Court gave the go-ahead on Thursday evening for it to take place, there was not enough time before the death warrant expired at midnight.
Alabama's prisons commissioner reportedly has said that the execution didn't go ahead over issues in finding Miller's veins.
Prison officials were told to proceed at 9.20pm and family, lawyers, along with the media were told to go to the facility to witness the execution in the death chamber.
Media was driven to the facility and after a delay they were led in before then being driven away without having seen the execution or given any explanation over what happened.
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) released information at 6.22pm on Thursday over what Miller had received for his final meal and the visitors that he had received.
He decided on a large meal that included French fries and instant potatoes.
The full meal consisted of meatloaf, chuckwagon steak, American cheese, French fries, apple sauce, instant potatoes, macaroni, apples and an orange drink.
A note to the media also said what he was able to access ahead of his execution.
"The condemned inmate is allowed access to a television, a telephone, his/her mail, and a Bible or its equivalent," it stated.
Miller, a former delivery driver, was convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting, in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1999, and he was sentenced to death.
In his trial the prosecution claimed an employee entering Ferguson Enterprises, in Pelham, saw Miller leaving on August 5, 1999, before finding the bodies of Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy dead inside.
Then Miller drove to Post Airgas, nearby, where he had previously worked and killed employee Terry Jarvis, it was alleged.
The ADOC said that several members of his family visited him on Wednesday and Thursday.
He was seen on Wednesday by his brothers Richard Miller and Jeffery Carr, his sister Cheryl Ellison and his sister-in-law Sandra Carr. He also had a phone call with his lawyer Kelly Huggins that day.
He was then visited by the same people on Thursday as well s his uncle Richard Carr and another lawyer Mara Rose Klebaner.
Miller had wanted to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia due to a fear of needles and that had been accepted by US District Judge R. Austin Huffaker who issued a preliminary injunction.
But then the Alabama Attorney General’s Office appealed to the US Supreme Court who allowed the execution to proceed.
