This undated photo the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Doyle Lee Hamm. Alabama will not make a second attempt to execute an ailing Hamm who had his lethal injection halted last month when... (Associated Press) 
 
 This undated photo the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Doyle Lee Hamm. Alabama will not make a second attempt to execute an ailing Hamm who had his lethal injection halted last month when the team could not find a usable vein, his attorney said Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Hamm was scheduled... (Associated Press) 
 
 This undated photo the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Doyle Lee Hamm. Alabama will not make a second attempt to execute an ailing Hamm who had his lethal injection halted last month when the team could not find a usable vein, his attorney said Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Hamm was scheduled... (Associated Press) This undated photo the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Doyle Lee Hamm. Alabama will not make a second attempt to execute an ailing Hamm who had his lethal injection halted last month when... (Associated Press) 
 
 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will not make a second attempt to put to death an ailing inmate who had his lethal injection halted last month when the execution team could not find a usable vein, his attorney said Tuesday. 
 
 Doyle Lee Hamm will not face a second trip to the state's death chamber under a settlement reached to end Hamm's lawsuit against the state, attorney Bernard Harcourt wrote in an email. The filing noted that Hamm's request for compensation had been dismissed, but the terms of the settlement were confidential. 
 
 "I will say that Doyle, his family, and his legal team are extremely relieved," Harcourt wrote. 
 
 Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office confirmed the agreement to dismiss the lawsuit, but did not respond to questions about what it meant for another execution date. "There is no further comment," a spokeswoman wrote in an email. 
 
 Harcourt had written in earlier court filings that Hamm had endured "torture" during the state's attempt to execute him on Feb. 22. 
 
 Hamm was scheduled to be put to death for the 1987 slaying of motel clerk Patrick Cunningham. His attorneys argued that Hamm's history of lymphoma, hepatitis and drug use had compromised his veins to the point that lethal injection would be unconstitutionally painful or impossible. The state disputed that. 
 
 However, Alabama halted the lethal injection after the execution team had trouble connecting the intravenous line. The announcement came about 2 ½ hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the execution to proceed. 
 
 A doctor hired by Hamm's attorney wrote in a court filing that Hamm had at least 11 puncture wounds. The doctor said that Hamm said someone from the state announced that the execution was over after he began bleeding heavily from the groin. ||||| CLOSE A U.S. judge ordered Alabama to preserve death chamber evidence of an aborted execution and be ready to present it at court after lawyers for the condemned man warned his poor health left him with veins unusable for a lethal injection. Wochit 
 
 In September 2017, a doctor hired by Doyle Lee Hamm's legal team reported execution officials would likely have trouble setting an IV due to vein damage from lymphatic cancer. (Photo: Bernard Harcourt) 
 
 Alabama will not try to execute a death row inmate a second time after he walked out of the execution chamber last month, the inmate's lawyer said Tuesday. 
 
 Doyle Lee Hamm's legal team on Tuesday said a private settlement would end efforts at setting another execution date. 
 
 Alabama Department of Corrections officials called off his lethal injection attempt at Holman Correctional Facility shortly before midnight on Feb. 22. ADOC officials said it was a time issue — Hamm's death warrant expired at midnight — but Hamm's legal team say multiple attempts to set an IV in his lower legs and groin led to extreme pain, possible infection and psychological distress. 
 
 "In a private, confidential settlement agreement that I signed with the attorneys from the Alabama Attorney General’s office, we resolved all of our differences and have jointly dismissed all the state and federal litigation in Doyle Hamm’s cases," attorney Bernard Harcourt wrote in an emailed statement. 
 
 The Montgomery Advertiser has requested comment from the Attorney General's office. 
 
 Harcourt said Hamm and his family are "extremely relieved." 
 
 According to court document's, Hamm's claim for monetary damages was dismissed. 
 
 Doyle Lee Hamm was convicted of the 1987 murder of Cullman hotel clerk Patrick Cunningham in the course of a robbery. (Photo: Bernard Harcourt) 
 
 Hamm believes Alabama lost its chance to kill him: His lawyer had argued in court a second execution attempt would violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment and the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. 
 
 Convicted of killing Cullman motel clerk Patrick Cunningham in 1987, Hamm had previously argued his veins were too damaged to access because of a host of medical issues. 
 
 Hamm is one of four American men to walk out of the execution chamber since the mid-1900s, and one of only two still living. 
 
 In Ohio in 2009, an execution team spent nearly two hours trying to locate a suitable vein in Romell Broom, who had been convicted for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a teen girl. 
 
 Broom’s lawyers fought against a second execution date, arguing it would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy. 
 
 But Ohio's Supreme Court found that setting an IV is prep for an impending execution, not part of the execution itself. An execution can't begin until "lethal drugs flow through the tubes," the court found. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 declined to hear Broom's challenge to a second injection attempt, and a new execution date was set in June 2020. 
 
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– Last month, Doyle Lee Hamm walked out of an Alabama execution chamber alive. On Tuesday, the inmate's legal team said a private settlement had been reached to ensure the state won't try to execute Hamm again. Hamm, sentenced to death for killing a motel clerk during a 1987 robbery, was scheduled for execution Feb. 22; his death warrant expired at midnight. Alabama Department of Corrections officials said they called off the lethal injection execution because they didn't have enough time to prepare before the warrant expired, but Hamm's legal team say officials actually did make multiple attempts to get an IV in him and ultimately failed. One of Hamm's lawyers called it a "gory, botched," and very bloody attempt to put the inmate to death, and his team says it left him in extreme pain and psychological distress and possibly suffering from an infection. The settlement puts an end to Hamm's resulting lawsuit against the state. "In a private, confidential settlement agreement that I signed with the attorneys from the Alabama Attorney General’s office, we resolved all of our differences and have jointly dismissed all the state and federal litigation in Doyle Hamm’s cases," Hamm's attorney Bernard Harcourt said in a statement Tuesday, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. Hamm's team argued in court that attempting to put him to death a second time would violate the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause as well as the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The Attorney General's office has not yet commented, but the Advertiser notes that court documents show Hamm's claim for monetary damages was dismissed. "I will say that Doyle, his family, and his legal team are extremely relieved," reads Harcourt's statement, per the AP.