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       ~ Keith Gavin, 18Jul24, (AL) ~ 
       By: BuzzC Date: June 1, 2024, 9:17 pm
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       Execution date set for Alabama man convicted of killing driver
       who stopped at ATM--
       April 26th, 2024
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       The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal
       shooting of a delivery driver who had stopped at an ATM has been
       set for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday.
       Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal
       injection, which is the state's primary execution method.
       The announcement came a week after the Alabama Supreme Court
       authorized the execution to go forward.
       Gavin was convicted of capital murder for the shooting death of
       William Clinton Clayton, Jr. in Cherokee County in northeast
       Alabama. He was previously convicted of murder and attempted
       murder for shooting at a law enforcement officer, court
       documents said, which led to the decision to charge him with two
       counts of capital murder.
       Clayton, a delivery driver, was shot in his van when he stopped
       at an ATM to get money to take his wife to dinner, prosecutors
       said.
       Witnesses said Gavin approached the vehicle and shot Clayton
       before stealing the van. An autopsy determined Clayton had three
       gunshot wounds from two bullets.
       A jury voted 10-2 in favor of the death penalty for Gavin. The
       trial court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced him
       to death.
       Gavin's attorney asked the court not to authorize the execution,
       arguing the state was moving Gavin to the "front of the line"
       ahead of other inmates who had exhausted their appeals.
       Alabama in January carried out the nation's first execution
       using nitrogen gas, but lethal injection remains the state's
       primary execution method.
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       Re: ~ Keith Gavin, 18Jul24, (AL) ~ 
       By: BuzzC Date: July 18, 2024, 7:07 pm
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       Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin executed in 1998
       shooting death of father of 7--
       Gavin was executed by lethal injection in the shooting death of
       William Clayton Jr., a married father of 7 described by his son
       as a gentle giant. It's Alabama's 3rd execution this year.
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