This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections. shows Keith Edmund Gavin. The Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 authorized an execution date for Gavin, who was convicted in the 1998 shooting death of William Clinton Clayton, Jr. in Cherokee County.Updated: 43 minutes ago
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal shooting of a delivery driver who had stopped at an ATM has been set for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal injection, which is the state's primary execution method.Gavin was convicted of capital murder for the shooting death of William Clinton Clayton, Jr. in Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. Clayton, a delivery driver, was shot when he stopped at an ATM to get money to take his wife to dinner, prosecutors said. A jury voted 10-2 in favor of the death penalty for Gavin.
Gavin’s attorney had asked the court not to authorize the execution, arguing the state was moving Gavin to the “front of the line” ahead of other inmates who had exhausted their appeals. The state is also scheduled to execute Jamie Mills by lethal injection on May 30. Mills was convicted for the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery., but lethal injection remains the state’s primary execution method.
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