Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed a death warrant for Geoffrey Todd West, scheduling his execution for 25 September. West, now 49, was convicted of capital murder for shooting convenience-store clerk Margaret Parrish Berry during a 1997 robbery in Attalla, Etowah County, and has been on death row since 1999. The execution is set to be carried out by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that deprives the inmate of oxygen by replacing it with nitrogen through a face mask. Alabama became the first state to use nitrogen last year and has since conducted five executions with the gas; one other was carried out in Louisiana. West’s execution would be the seventh nationwide and the sixth in Alabama. Court records show a jury voted 10–2 to recommend death for West after testimony that he stole about $250 from the store where he had previously worked. Judge William Cardwell accepted the recommendation, calling the killing “deliberate and intentional.” West opted for nitrogen hypoxia after the state legislature authorized the method in 2018, selecting it before detailed procedures were in place.