Carey Dale Grayson, 49, is set to die on Nov. 21. He would be the third Alabama inmate to die this year using nitrogen gas.
Published: Oct. 08, 2024, 5:34 p.m.A shackled Alabama Death Row inmate sat Tuesday waiting to hear if a judge would allow his scheduled execution to go forward as he listened to his attorneys argue inside a federal courtroom about the best method to kill him.
Much of the morning’s testimony centered around the two prior nitrogen executions in Alabama this year—which were the first of their kind nationally.Smith’s execution sparked controversy after he writhed on the gurney for several minutes, thrashing against the restraints, and slightly gasped for seven minutes after.
Grayson’s lawyers have proposed several alternatives, including a dose of midazolam followed by a dose of ketamine to precede the nitrogen; or a dose of ketamine followed by a fatal dose of fentanyl. Hamm was questioned about the media witnesses’ accounts of both nitrogen executions, which AL.com was part of. He said he generally believed the AP reporter and AL.com reporter who witnessed those executions to be truthful and trustworthy, but that he wouldn’t have used words like “gasping” to describe the executions.
The warden of William C. Holman Correctional Facility, Terry Raybon, took the stand after lunch. He testified that, as the state’s executioner, he gives three codes during the nitrogen executions to the other team members: one that the nitrogen is about to start flowing, one to initiate a consciousness check or a check of the pulse oximeter on the inmate, and one when the execution has been completed.
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