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On March 6, 1998, 68-year-old contract courier William Clinton Clayton Jr. was shot to death by an unknown person while he was taking money out of an ATM in downtown Centre, Alabama. The killer was later identified as Keith Edmund Gavin, a resident of Chicago who was out on parole after serving 16 years of a 34-year jail term for a 1982 murder case in his native state of Illinois. Gavin was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in 1999, and he was incarcerated on death row for about 25 years before he was executed via lethal injection on July 18, 2024.
On June 24, 2004, 87-year-old Floyd Hill and his 72-year-old wife Vera Hill were both attacked and murdered in Guin, Alabama, United States, by an intruder who bludgeoned them severely before stealing $140 and prescription drugs from the couple. Floyd was mortally wounded and died on the scene; Vera survived until September 12, 2004, when she died of complications resulting from her injuries.
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- ↑ Chandler, Kim (2021-08-07). "Alabama says it has built 'system' for nitrogen gas executions". The Birmingham News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
- 1 2 Gordon, Tom (June 12, 2009) "Alabama Death Row inmate Jack Trawick apologizes before execution." Birmingham News
- ↑ Inmate Executed In Alabama Prison. The New York Times .
- ↑ Alabama Executes Convict In Killing. The New York Times .
- ↑ Alabama Executes Man in Death of a Widow. The New York Times.
- ↑ 2 Electric Jolts in Alabama Execution. The New York Times.
- ↑ Murderer of Woman Is Executed in Alabama. The New York Times.
- ↑ A Convicted Killer Is Executed in Alabama. The New York Times.
- ↑ HEATH v. ALABAMA, 474 U.S. 82 (1985). The New York Times.
- ↑ Execution in Alabama for the Killing of a Nun. The New York Times.
- ↑ Klan Member Put to Death In Race Death. The New York Times.
- ↑ Gordon, Tom (February 12, 2009) "Danny Joe Bradley ends 26 years on Alabama's Death Row in execution chamber." Birmingham News
- ↑ Gordon, Tom (April 16, 2009) "Updated: Alabama executes Jimmy Lee Dill for 1989 slaying of Leon Shaw of Birmingham." Birmingham News
- ↑ Gordon, Tom (May 14, 2009) "Alabama executes Willie McNair for 1990 slaying of Ella Foy Riley in Abbeville." Birmingham News
- ↑ Gordon, Tom (October 8, 2009) "Alabama executes Max Landon Payne for 1992 slaying of Cullman County store owner Braxton Brown." Birmingham News