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

Grayson, 49, is set to die Nov. 21, within a 30-hour timeframe. He was convicted with three other men for the brutal Feb. 22, 1994, slaying and mutilation of Vicki Lynn DeBlieux.

Carey Dale Grayson was put to death tonight in Alabama, becoming the third person in the US to be executed by controversial nitrogen hypoxia

The State of Alabama is set to execute its third death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday after a U.S. court of appeals this week rejected the argument that the method was unconstitutional.

The execution is the 22nd in the U.S. this year and the sixth in Alabama, which has put three of the men to death using nitrogen gas.

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.

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.

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.