Alabama has executed an inmate convicted of killing an Etowah County gas station clerk in 1997 and stealing about $250.

Geoffrey Todd West was executed Thursday night at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore by being forced to inhale pure nitrogen gas, a method first used in Alabama last year and now the sixth time the state has employed it. West apologized for his crime in a final statement sent to reporters by his attorney after the execution.

“I am at peace because I know where I am going and look forward to seeing Mrs. Berry when I get there,” West, who declined to speak in the death chamber, said in his prepared statement.

His official time of death was 6:22 p.m.

The 50-year-old had been on Alabama Death Row for over 28 years for the March 1997 killing of Margaret Parr

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