An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas. Carey Dale Grayson was executed for the murder of Vickie DeBlieux. (AP video by Kim Chandler)
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Alabama carries out nation’s 3rd nitrogen gas execution on a man for a hitchhiker’s killing

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas. Carey Dale Grayson was executed for the murder of Vickie DeBlieux. (AP video by Kim Chandler)
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