
Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was executed by chemical injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. Gavin was convicted of fatally shooting courier service driver William Clayton Jr. during a robbery attempt in Cherokee County on March 6, 1998. Clayton, a Korean War veteran and father of seven, was killed as he was getting money at an ATM to take his wife to dinner.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey expressed that justice was finally delivered for Mr. Clayton's loved ones after years of appeals by Gavin to avoid his death sentence. The execution proceeded after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Gavin's request for a stay of execution.