Two longtime residents on death row in Texas and Alabama were executed mere minutes apart Thursday evening — departing in vastly different manners and leaving behind opposing legacies.

Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was killed via nitrogen hypoxia at Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility, even after his victim’s son pleaded for him to be spared.

West was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry, a 33-year-old mother of two, who he shot in the back of the head while robbing a gas station with his then-girlfriend. 4

He spent much of his years behind bars professing his guilt and, bit by bit, forging a kinship with Berry’s son, Will, who came to forgive the killer and even pleaded for him to be spared.

“I forgive this guy, and I don’t want him to d

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