Alabama set to carry out nation's third nitrogen gas execution; Carey Grayson was one of 4 teens who killed hitchhiker in 1994
CBSN
An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed in the U.S., and Alabama, by nitrogen gas on Thursday.
Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was one of four teenagers convicted of killing Vickie Deblieux, 37, who was hitchhiking through Alabama on her way to her mother's home in Louisiana. He is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama.
Alabama this year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some death sentences, the first use of a new execution method in the United States since lethal injection was introduced in 1982. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the person's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.
