Nitrogen execution set for man convicted of killing store clerk during 1997 robbery
Montgomery, al. – The Alabama has planned a September execution by gaseous nitrogen for a man found guilty of having killed a deputy for a convenience store during a 1997 flight.
The governor of Alabama Kay Ivey set a date of execution of September 25 for Geoffrey Todd West. West, now 49 years old, is in the death corridor for having killed Margaret Parrish Berry.
Prosecutors said West had led to Harold’s chevron to Attalla with plans to steal the store where he used to work. Berry, 33, was shot down to the back of the head when he was lying on the ground behind the counter, prosecutors said.
The judicial files indicate that $ 250 was taken from a box of cookie which held the money of the store.
A jury was found guilty to the west of murder of capital and voted 10-2 to recommend a death sentence. A judge adopted the jury’s recommendation and sentenced West to death.
Etowah County Circuit Judge William Cardwell, during the 1999 conviction, said that it was difficult to order the execution of a young man, but said that death by bullet was “clearly deliberate and intentional, carried out an execution”.
The prosecutors also accused the girlfriend of West to kill. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
ALABAMA last year has become the first state to perform with gas nitrogen, a method that involves pumping nitrogen through a facial mask and depriving the oxygen prisoner.
The method has now been used in six executions – five in Alabama and one in Louisiana. Alabama has planned another nitrogen execution in August.
West was one of the many Alabama detainees who selected nitrogen as a preferred method of execution after state legislators authorized the method. He made the selection before Alabama develops procedures for the method.
