An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff. Carey Dale Grayson had been on death row for 28 years following the 1994 murder and mutilation of 37-year-old hitchhiker Vickie Lynn Deblieux who was traveling from Chatanooga,

Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was put to death on Thursday in Alabama's third execution using nitrogen gas - he requested a luxury meal before his death that included tacos and chips

Carey Dale Grayson made an expletive outburst and then took several minutes to die in Alabama as he was seen gasping for breath for the murder of a hitchhiker along with his teenage friends

Strapped to a gurney with a blue-rimmed gas mask on his face, Carey Dale Grayson shook at times and took a series of gasping breaths - with his heart beating for around 10 minutes after the nitrogen began flowing.

Prison officials in Alabama have executed convicted murderer Carey Dale Grayson, marking the state's sixth death sentence and third using the nitrogen gas method so far this year.

ATMORE − The State of Alabama executed Carey Dale Grayson by nitrogen gas hypoxia Thursday evening for the brutal 1994 Jefferson County murder of a hitchhiker. It was Alabama's sixth execution for the year and the third in two months.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

Carey Dale Grayson, a 50-year-old Alabama inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker, was put to death on Thursday using nitrogen gas.

The state of Alabama Thursday executed Carey Dale Grayson, 49, for his role in the murder of Vickie Deblieux in 1994. Grayson, the third person to be executed by nitrogen gas by the state, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.