Alabama is set to carry out its third execution of the year next week.
The state plans to execute Keith Edmund Gavin by lethal injection at some time between midnight on July 16 and 6 a.m. on July 17. Gavin was convicted of the 1998 murder of William Clayton Jr.
Gov. Kay Ivey set Gavin’s execution date at the end of April. It would be the second death sentence the state will carry out this year by lethal injection. Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas in September.
In January, Alabama put to Kenneth Eugene Smith to death in the first-ever nitrogen gas execution. Jamie Ray Mills was executed by lethal injection at the end of May.