ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed by chemical injection Thursday evening in Alabama.
Jul 19, 2024 05:27 AMATMORE, Ala. — A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed by chemical injection Thursday evening in Alabama.Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said. He was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of courier service driver William Clayton Jr., 68, in Cherokee County on March 6, 1998.
Clayton was retired from a job at a railroad company and was a Korean War veteran, according to a 1998 obituary published by The Birmingham News. The father of seven was still working to help provide for his family, his son said.Matthew Clayton, who witnessed the execution, said afterward that his father was a"slice of Americana," sometimes working two jobs to support his family."He was a good man.
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