Alabama sets July execution date for man convicted of killing delivery driver

Alabama has acceptable a July 18 execution day for a antheral convicted successful the 1998 shooting decease of a transportation operator who had stopped astatine an ATM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The execution day for a antheral convicted successful the 1998 fatal shooting of a transportation operator who had stopped astatine an ATM has been acceptable for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday.

Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, volition beryllium enactment to decease by lethal injection, which is the state's superior execution method.

The announcement came a week aft the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution to spell forward.

Gavin was convicted of superior execution for the shooting decease of William Clinton Clayton, Jr. successful Cherokee County successful northeast Alabama. Clayton, a transportation driver, was changeable erstwhile helium stopped astatine an ATM to get wealth to instrumentality his woman to dinner, prosecutors said. A assemblage voted 10-2 successful favour of the decease punishment for Gavin. The proceedings tribunal accepted the jury’s proposal and sentenced him to death.

Gavin’s lawyer had asked the tribunal not to authorize the execution, arguing the authorities was moving Gavin to the “front of the line” up of different inmates who had exhausted their appeals.

The authorities is besides scheduled to execute Jamie Mills by lethal injection connected May 30. Mills was convicted for the 2004 slaying of a mates during a robbery.

Alabama successful January carried retired the nation's archetypal execution utilizing nitrogen gas, but lethal injection remains the state's superior execution method.