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Alabama sets nitrogen execution for man convicted of killing store clerk during 1997 robbery

ETOWAH COUNTY, ALABAMA, JUL 3 – Geoffrey Todd West will be Alabama's fifth person executed by nitrogen gas, following a 10-2 jury death sentence for the 1997 gas station clerk murder.

  • Alabama has scheduled an execution for 49-year-old Christopher West, who has been on death row for over 28 years for killing Margaret Parrish Berry in March 1997.
  • Court records show that West planned to rob the gas station where Berry worked as an attendant.
  • A jury at West’s original trial voted 10-2 in favor of the death penalty.
  • West's execution will occur about a month after another execution is scheduled in Alabama.
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Alabama sets nitrogen execution for man convicted of killing store clerk during 1997 robbery

Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery.

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Mediafax West was sentenced to death for the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry, an employee of a gas station in Attalla during a Jaf in 1997. According to the prosecutors, West, he was hired by Harold’s Chevron gasoline, planned the Jaffle and shot the victim in both, while this was intended on the ground. Within a box of biscuits were stolen $250. The jury found him guilty of capital murder and, with a vote of 10 to 2, recommended the death pena…

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Winnipeg Free Press broke the news in Winnipeg, Canada on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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