Carey Dale Grayson, 50, fought his restraints and raised both middle fingers just before gas was administered, a witness said.

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.

Grayson’s three accomplices managed to escape execution because they were under 18 at the time of Deblieux’s murder

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.

Carey Dale Grayson is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia after being convicted of killing 37-year-old hitchhiker Vickie Deblieux in 1994.

An Alabama inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker was scheduled to become the third person in the nation executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening. Carey Dale Grayson, now 50,

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.

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.

A man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker in Alabama was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.