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With Eleventh Circuit Okay, Alabama Executes Third Prisoner by Nitrogen Hypoxia
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2025, page 13
Getting a green light from the United States Court of Appeals in the Eleventh Circuit, Alabama used nitrogen gas to kill prisoner Carey Dale Grayson, 50, on November 21, 2024. He told William C. Holman Correctional Facility Warden Terry Raybon to “fuck off” before the gas started flowing, using …
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