Alabama halts Alan Miller's execution, saying there wasn't time to finish it before a deadline

Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of a man convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting because of time concerns and trouble accessing his veins.

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after determining they couldn't get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline. Prison officials made the decision at about 11:30 p.m., he said.

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to begin.