Geoffrey Todd West Executed for 1997 Etowah County Murder

ATMORE, Ala. – Alabama executed Geoffrey Todd West Thursday evening for the 1997 killing of an Etowah County gas station clerk during a robbery that netted about $250.

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West, 53, was put to death at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore by nitrogen hypoxia, a method first used in Alabama last year and now employed for the sixth time. His time of death was 6:22 p.m.

West was convicted in 1999 of capital murder for the shooting death of 38-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry at Harold’s Chevron in Attalla, where she worked as a clerk. Prosecutors said West, who once worked at the station, had told his girlfriend that he

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