An execution date has been set for a man convicted in the 1998 killing of a delivery driver at an ATM in northeast Alabama. Governor Kay Ivey announced that Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal injection within a 30-hour time frame beginning at 12 a.m. on July 18 and ending at 6 a.m. on July 19. The state Supreme Court authorized the execution following Governor Ivey's announcement.
Gavin was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of William Clayton Jr. on March 6, 1998, in the town of Centre. Clayton, a delivery driver, was fatally shot by Gavin during an attempted robbery while he was withdrawing money from an ATM to take to his wife for dinner. An investigator with the district attorney's office witnessed the shooting and began pursuing Gavin, who then fled in Clayton's van after shooting at the investigator.
