FILE – This undated photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Geoffrey West. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)

The Alabama Department of Corrections has executed Geoffrey Todd West.

West was executed at 6:22PM tonight by nitrogen hypoxia at Holman Prison in Atmore.

West had been sentenced to death for the 1997 capital murder of Margaret Parrish Berry in Etowah County.

Prosecutors said West drove to Harold’s Chevron in the Etowah County city of Attalla with plans to rob the store where he once worked. Berry, 33, was shot in the back of the head while lying on the floor behind the counter. Court records state that $250 was taken from a cookie can that held the store’s money.

A jury convicted West of capital murder and voted 10-2 to recommend a death sentence.

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