A man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker in Alabama was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

An Alabama inmate found guilty of murdering a hitchhiker 30 years ago on Thursday became the third person in America to be executed using nitrogen gas, furthering the ongoing debate about whether the method is an inhumane way to carry out death penalty sentences.

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It was Alabama's sixth execution for the year and the third in ... bludgeoning death and mutilation of Vickie Lynn DeBlieux on Feb. 21, 1994. The 37-year-old Deblieux was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to visit her mother in Louisiana when ...

Grayson’s three accomplices managed to escape execution because they were under 18 at the time of Deblieux’s murder

Carey Dale Grayson is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia after being convicted of killing 37-year-old hitchhiker Vickie Deblieux in 1994.

Barring intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama will carry out its sixth execution of 2024 on Thursday evening. Carey Dale Grayson, sentenced to death for his role in the murder of Vickie Deblieux in 1994,

The execution is the 22nd in the U.S. this year and the sixth in Alabama, which has put three of the men to death using nitrogen gas.

An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed by nitrogen gas