Alabama has put to death inmate Carey Dale Grayson for the 1994 murder of a hitchhiker, the third execution using nitrogen gas in the US.
Grayson, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. on Thursday at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in the state after the new method was used.
He was one of four teenagers convicted of the slaying of Vickie Deblieux, 37, as she was hitchhiking in Alabama on the way to her mother’s home in Louisiana.
The execution took place hours after a request for a stay was rejected by the US Supreme Court. Lawyers for Grayson had argued that the new method of execution required more study before being used again.
Grayson became the 22nd inmate to be put to death in the US this year, Alabama’s sixth in 2024 and third in just two months, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
