Carey Dale Grayson was sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1994.
The United States has executed its third death row inmate using a controversial new method.
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Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of 37-year-old hitchhiker Vicki DeBlieux in 1994. DeBlieux was in Tennessee trying to get home to her mother in Louisiana when four men picked her up in a car. They took DeBlieu to an isolated area in the woods and attacked her before throwing her off a cliff.
Grayson became the third person to be executed by nitrogen gas at William Holman Correctional Institution in southern Alabama on Thursday, Nov. 14.
The controversial “nitrogen hypoxia” execution method involves breathing nitrogen through a respirator placed over an inmate's nose and mouth, killing them by starving them of oxygen.
Kenneth Smith, 58, was the first person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia earlier this year, while 59-year-old Alan Miller became the second person in the United States to die in this manner.
At 6:33 p.m. local time, Grayson reportedly suffocated on gas coming from his mask. But before he died, he said, “As for you, you need to go f*ck yourself,” he told the governor, who asked if he had any last words. He then raised both middle fingers up at the warden.
Until now, only Alabama had used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the death penalty.
David Morton, an emeritus professor of biomedical science and ethics at the University of Birmingham in the UK, has previously warned against the method: “It's effective but can cause severe distress to the point of collapse and death. It's essentially a method of asphyxiation. There's likely to be significant species variation and we're not sure what would happen in humans. Animal experiments are usually used as a proxy for humans but in this case that doesn't seem to be the case – the definitive test is in humans.”
In 2018, Alabama became the third state, along with Oklahoma and Mississippi, to allow the use of nitrogen gas for capital punishment.
Recall that the youngest woman sentenced to death in the US 30 years ago has still not been executed. It is known why she is still on death row.
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