Washington: According to officials, a man convicted of killing a hitchhiker in Alabama was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday, marking the third instance of the contentious technique in the southern US state this year.
According to a statement from the state’s prison administration, Carey Grayson, 49, was executed at the William Holman Correctional Facility in the town of Atmore, where he was declared dead at 6:33 p.m. local time.
“Alabama has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out Carey Grayson’s execution,” stated Steve Marshall, the attorney general for Alabama. “Tonight, justice has been served.”
For the 1994 murder of 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux, who was killed while hitchhiking from Tennessee to Louisiana to see her mother, Grayson received a death sentence.
