The son of a woman shot and killed execution-style during a gas station holdup nearly three decades ago is asking Alabama officials to spare the life of the death row inmate set to be executed in two days.

Margaret Parrish Berry, a 33-year-old mother of two, was found dead face-down behind the checkout counter at a gas station in Alabama’s Etowah County on March 28, 1997. She was working there as a solo store clerk, and there were no witnesses to the grisly murder.

The thief holding up the gas station took $250 from a nearby cookie jar where the store’s money was stashed.

Geoffrey Todd West, who was 21-years-old at the time, was eventually arrested in connection with the robbery and convicted of capital murder.

He was sentenced to death in 1999, though the presiding judge noted the dif

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