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Geoffrey Todd West is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas Thursday in Alabama.

Will Berry, the son of victim Margaret Parrish Berry, says he forgives West and does not want him executed.

Gov. Kay Ivey has said Alabama law requires her to carry out death sentences.

The son of a woman killed during a 1997 robbery is asking Alabama officials to stop the scheduled execution of her killer, saying forgiveness — not death — is what his late mother would have wanted, the Associated Press reported.

Will Berry was 11 years old when his mother, 33-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry, was shot in the back of the head while working at a gas station in Etowah County.

The man convicted of her murder, Geoffrey Todd West, now 50, is set to be executed T

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