Execution date set for northeast Alabama man convicted of gas station clerk’s murder

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at a northeast Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when the state will put him to death.

49-year-old Geoffrey Todd West now has a 30-hour time frame for execution set to begin at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 25th, and will end Friday, September 26th, according to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s office.

The execution will be carried out using nitrogen gas — a method recently approved in the state…

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