Alabama Set to Execute Man for Fatal Shooting of Delivery Driver During 1998 Robbery Attempt

Published on July 18, 2024

A man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped for cash at an ATM to take his wife to dinner is facing scheduled execution Thursday night in Alabama. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, is set to receive a lethal injection at a prison in southwest Alabama. He was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County. Alabama last week agreed in Mr. Gavin’s case to forgo a post-execution autopsy, which is typically performed on executed inmates in the state. Mr. Gavin, who is Muslim, said the procedure would violate his religious beliefs. Mr. Gavin had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop plans for an autopsy, and the state settled the complaint....

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