Montgomery, Alabama
FILE – This undated image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Keith Edmund Gavin. The Alabama prison system in a statement Friday, July 12, 2024, said it has agreed to forgo an autopsy on Muslim death row inmate Gavin, scheduled to be executed Thursday, July 18, who said the post-mortem procedure would violate his religious beliefs. A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed Thursday evening in Alabama.
“I love my family,” Gavin said in his final statement, which appeared to be followed by a few words in Arabic. At about 6:16 p.m. Gavin, who is Muslim, appeared to move his lips in prayer as his spiritual adviser stood beside the gurney.
FILE- Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured. Alabama last week agreed in Gavin’s case to forgo a post-execution autopsy, which is typically performed on executed inmates in the state. Gavin said the procedure would violate his religious beliefs. Gavin had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop plans for an autopsy, and the state settled the complaint.
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