Alabama is preparing to carry out a man convicted of killing a woman during a robbery at a gas station in 1997, while the execution of the country that was implemented with nitrogen gas will be.
Jeffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled for Thursday night at William C Holman’s reform facility in southern Alabama. The West was convicted of killing, due to the death of Margaret Parish Perry, 33, the son of Perry in 1997.
It is one of the two executions scheduled for Thursday in the United States. Texas plans to carry out deadly injections in the same evening.
Perry, the mother of two sons, was shot while lying on the floor behind the table in Chevron Harold in Etoh Province on March 28, 1997.
Prosecutors said that the store writer was killed to ensure that there was no leave. Court records indicate that $ 250 was taken from the cookie that holds the store’s money. West’s friend, West, agreed to testify against him for a 35 -year prison sentence for her role in theft and slaughter.
A jury was convicted of the west of the murder during the process of robbery and voted 10-2 to recommend the death sentence-the recommendation that accepted the judge. William Cardil, the judge of the Iteh County Department, said in the sentence that issued the sentence in 1999, that he had found it difficult to postpone the execution of a young man but said the killing was “intended, similar to the execution.”
The West does not deny that it killed Margaret Perry. He said in 50 years he was struggling to understand what he did in 21 years. He and his girlfriend were desperate for money and went to the store where he was working to steal him once.
“There is no day that does not regret it and I hope that I can restore it,” West told Associated Press.
He said he wanted to apologize to the Perry family.
West said: “I am very sorry for the harm that I all caused. I am very sorry for what I took away from you, and I hope and invite you to forgive me,” West said.
One of the sons of Perry, the governor of Alabama, urged Kai Ivy to stop the execution and allow the West to bring the rest of his life in prison.
Will Perry said that he forgave West. He said he believed that forgiveness is what his mother wants.
Will Perry said: “I do not want this man to die. Revenge is not for the state. It is for the sake of the Lord.”
On Tuesday, Perry joined opponents of the death penalty for a protest outside the Capitol in Alabama. Help delivered a petition to the Evy office, calling for the death off.
In a letter on September 11 to Perry, Ivy responded that she appreciated his faith, but said that Alabama’s law “imposes death as a punishment on the most terrible forms of killing.”
“As a ruler, my official duty is to implement these laws,” Ivy wrote.
Ivey has Dilute the death penalty Within eight years in office. The Republican Governor wrote in the letter that she only did so because of questions about a person’s guilt.
West and Perry exchange messages. The two men asked to be able to meet before the execution of Thursday night. But the state rejected the request for security reasons.
The West will be implemented by nitrogen gas. This method includes linking the gas mask on the face and forcing the inmate to breathe pure nitrogen gas, thus depriving the person’s oxygen needed to survive. Nitrogen is an inactive gas that makes up 78 % of the Earth’s atmosphere and is not harmful when mixed with adequate oxygen.
After the lawmakers in Alabama authorized in 2018, the Alabama Reform Ministry gave the death prisoners “depositing” a brief window to nominate their favorite execution. The West was several dozens of guests in 2018 who chose nitrogen. However, at that time the state did not develop procedures for its use, and it was unclear whenever that would happen.
Alabama carried out the first execution of nitrogen gas in the country in 2024. On the national level, six people have now been executed using nitrogen -five in Alabama and one in Louisiana.
The deadly injection remains the basic implementation of Albama.