Overview

• Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night at William C. Holman Correctional Facility using nitrogen hypoxia.
• Will Berry, the son of victim Margaret Parrish Berry, has forgiven West and petitioned the governor to commute the sentence to life in prison.
• Corrections officials denied a requested in-person meeting between Berry and West, citing security rules that prohibit visits between victims and inmates.
• Berry, 33, was shot execution-style during a 1997 robbery at Harold’s Chevron in Etowah County; $250 was taken, a jury voted 10–2 for death, and West’s girlfriend received 35 years after testifying.
• West expressed remorse and selected nitrogen after Alabama authorized the method in 2018; the state began using it in 2024, and six people have since been executed by nitrogen nationally.