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Alabama has executed man convicted of killing delivery driver during a 1998 robbery attempt
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed Thursday evening in Alabama.
Keith Edmund Gavin was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. CDT following a chemical injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said. The 64-year-old inmate was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County.
Handling his own appeals, Gavin filed a handwritten request Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a stay of execution. But the nation’s high court rejected his request without comment less than an hour before the scheduled 6 p.m. CDT start of the procedure. The state attorney’s general office had responded that the inmate’s arguments that a circuit court had wrongly rejected an earlier appeal were without merit.
Clayton, a courier service driver, had driven to an ATM in downtown Centre on the evening of March 6, 1998. He had just finished work and was getting money to take his wife to dinner, according to a court summary of trial testimony.