The 64-year-old was convicted and sentenced to die for the March 1998 murder of William “Bill” Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County. Clayton was gunned down near an ATM while getting cash to take his wife on a date that evening.
Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected] Edmund Gavin is set to be the third man Alabama executes this year when it conducts his planned lethal injection on Thursday night.
This story will be updated throughout the afternoon and evening. Updates will be at the top of this page, and the original story continues below.Gavin, whose attorneys have not responded to repeated requests for comment from AL.com, is set to be executed via Alabama’s three-drug lethal injection procedure.
After a brief legal battle in state court, the state obliged his request. “No autopsy will be performed on Keith Edmund Gavin,” said a statement from the Alabama Department of Corrections. “His remains will be picked up by the attending funeral home.” Just after 6:30 p.m. on March 6, 1998, the 68-year-old Birmingham man’s life ended when he crossed paths with Gavin, who had just arrived in downtown Centre. He had come from Illinois, where he had recently been paroled after serving 17 years of a 34-year sentence for murder.
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