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,

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.

It was Alabama's sixth execution for the year and the third in ... bludgeoning death and mutilation of Vickie Lynn DeBlieux on Feb. 21, 1994. The 37-year-old Deblieux was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to visit her mother in Louisiana when ...