ATMORE (AP) – A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed by chemical injection on Thursday evening in Alabama, United States (US).
Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was pronounced dead at 6.32pm. at the William C Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said. He was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of courier service driver William Clayton Jr, 68, in Cherokee County on March 6, 1998. Clayton had just finished work and was getting money at an ATM to take his wife to dinner, according to a court summary of trial testimony.” After receiving a death sentence, Mr Gavin appealed time after time for years to avoid justice, but failed at every attempt. Today, that justice was finally delivered for Mr Clayton’s loved ones,” Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said in a statement.
The execution began shortly after the US Supreme Court turned down Gavin’s request for a stay of execution, which he had filed himself in a handwritten document.
“I love my family,” Gavin said in his final statement at about 6.10pm, which appeared to be followed by a few words that were not audible.
