A jury in 1999 convicted Geoffrey Todd West of the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry during a convenience store robbery in Etowah County in 1997. West was executed Thursday despite a clemency campaign by her son Will. (Alabama Department of Corrections)
The state of Alabama executed Geoffrey Todd West, 50, on Thursday for the 1997 murder of Margaret Parrish Berry.
Thursday’s execution, carried out despite a public campaign from Berry’s son to stop it, marks the fourth time that the state put someone to death for the year, and third time in 2025 that Alabama used nitrogen gas as the method of execution…