A 64-year-old American man sentenced to death for killing a truck driver and father of seven in 1998 was executed by lethal injection in Alabama on Thursday, prison authorities in the southern US state said. Keith Edmund Gavin was executed by lethal injection and died at 18:32 (local time, 02:32 Greek time), according to the statement. Gavin, who had pleaded not guilty, had been convicted of murdering William Clayton, a 68-year-old truck driver and father of seven, while he was withdrawing money from an ATM to go out to dinner with his wife. At the time, Gavin was on parole after serving 17 years in prison for a previous murder he had committed in Illinois. Two more executions have taken place in Alabama this year, one of them by nitrogen inhalation, a world first. This execution drew strong criticism, with the UN comparing it to […]
Source: News Beast
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