On Thursday afternoon, the Alabama Department of Corrections executed Geoffrey Todd West, who was convicted for the 1997 murder of Margaret Parrish Berry during an armed robbery of a convenience store.

West was executed using nitrogen gas, an execution method first used in both Alabama and the nation in January of 2024.

Kim Chandler reported for the Associated Press that West declined to make any last remarks and was pronounced dead approximately 26 minutes after the execution began. Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said it went “just as expected, according to protocol.”

“I apologized privately to the family of Margaret Parrish Berry,” West wrote in a statement provided to the press by his attorney. He added that he was “humbled by the forgiveness her son, Will, has extended.” The sta

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