
The Alabama Supreme Court has granted authorization for the execution of Keith Edmund Gavin, a 64-year-old man convicted of capital murder in the 1998 shooting death of delivery driver William Clinton Clayton, Jr. The execution will be carried out by lethal injection, with the date to be set by Governor Kay Ivey.
According to prosecutors, Clayton was killed when he stopped at an ATM in downtown Centre to withdraw money for a dinner with his wife. A jury voted 10-2 in favor of the death penalty for Gavin, a decision upheld by the trial court.