Alabama Executes Geoffrey West by Nitrogen Gas for 1997 Murder
Alabama Executes Geoffrey West by Nitrogen Gas for 1997 Murder Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed Thursday night at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama, becoming the nation’s latest individual to face capital punishment by nitrogen gas. West was convicted of the 1997 capital murder of Margaret Parrish Berry, a 33-year-old store clerk. The execution proceeded despite a plea from Berry’s son, Will Berry, who had urged Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to commute West’s sentence to life…