Gavin, 64, who was sentenced to death for the March 1998 murder of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County, is set to be executed July 18, but the timeframe could go into July 19 if there are delays.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2024, 5:01 p.m.Keith Edmund Gavin was sentenced to death for the March 1998 murder of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County.Alabama Death Row inmate Keith Gavin had said in a court filing by his attorneys last month he didn’t plan any more appeals of his scheduled lethal-injection execution Thursday for the 1998 murder of man at a bank ATM in Cherokee County.
But on June 17, Gavin filed a “Stay of Execution” motion without his attorneys to the Cherokee County Circuit Court. At the same time he also asked the court for an “In Forma Pauperis” declaration – a status that allows poor people to have court filing fees waived. In his motion last week, Gavin had argued a jurisdictional issue and that jurors in his trial should not have been told about his previous conviction and sentence served for murder in Illinois.
Records stated that Gavin shot Clayton during an attempted robbery, pushed him into the passenger’s seat, and drove off in the van. With an investigator from the district attorney’s office in close pursuit, Gavin stopped the van, got out, shot at the investigator, and fled.Two eyewitnesses identified Gavin as the shooter, including his cousin, who was an employee of the Illinois Department of Corrections.
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