Death Row killer's odd final meal request before execution - from seafood to Mountain Dew

Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was enactment to decease connected Thursday successful Alabama's 3rd execution utilizing nitrogen state - helium requested a luxury repast earlier his decease that included tacos and chips

A Death Row slayer requested an elaborate nutrient bid for his last repast and guzzled down Mountain Dew.

Carey Dale Grayson, 50, from Alabama, was jailed aft helium murdered hitchhiking parent Vickie Deblieux successful 1994. He was sentenced to decease by nitrogen gas, but asked for a lavish seafood banquet earlier helium died connected Thursday evening.

Grayson rejected the meal and luncheon trays but opted for java and Mountain Dew. As good arsenic seafood, helium requested soft tacos, beef burritos, tostada, chips with guacamole from section establishments, earlier finishing disconnected with a Mountain Dew Blast.

Alabama began utilizing nitrogen state earlier this twelvemonth to transportation retired immoderate executions. The method involves placing a respirator state disguise implicit the look to regenerate breathable aerial with axenic nitrogen gas, causing decease by deficiency of oxygen.

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Q. Hamm said the nitrogen flowed for 15 minutes and an electrocardiogram showed Grayson nary longer had a heartbeat astir 10 minutes aft the state began flowing. Like 2 others antecedently executed by nitrogen, Grayson shook astatine times earlier taking a periodic bid of gasping breaths.

The victim's girl told reporters afterward that her parent had her aboriginal stolen from her. But she besides spoke retired against the determination to execute Grayson and "murdering inmates nether the guise of justice."

Grayson appeared to talk toward the witnesser country wherever authorities officials were present, but his words could not beryllium heard. He raised some mediate fingers astatine the commencement of the execution.

DeBlieux's mutilated assemblage was recovered astatine the bottommost of a bluff adjacent Odenville, Alabama, connected Feb. 26, 1994. She was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to her mother's location successful West Monroe, Louisiana, erstwhile the 4 teens offered her a ride. Prosecutors said the teens took her to a wooded country and attacked and bushed her. They returned to mutilate her body.

A aesculapian examiner testified that her look was truthful fractured that she was identified by an earlier X-ray of her spine. Investigators said the teens were identified arsenic suspects aft 1 of them showed a person 1 of DeBlieux's severed fingers and boasted astir the killing.

DeBlieux's girl Jodi Haley spoke with reporters astatine the media halfway connected situation spot aft the execution. Haley was 12 erstwhile her parent was killed. Describing her mum she said: "She was unique. She was spontaneous. She was wild. She was funny."

Gov. Kay Ivey said afterward she was praying for the victim's loved ones to find closure and healing. She said: "Some 30 years ago, Vicki DeBlieux's travel to her mother's location and ultimately, her life, were horrifically chopped abbreviated due to the fact that of Carey Grayson and 3 different men. She sensed thing was wrong, attempted to escape, but instead, was brutally tortured and murdered."

Grayson's crimes "were heinous, unimaginable, without an ounce of respect for quality beingness and conscionable unexplainably mean." She added: "An execution by nitrogen hypoxia (bears) nary examination to the decease and dismemberment Ms DeBlieux experienced."

Grayson was the lone 1 of the 4 teenagers who faced a death condemnation since the different teens were nether 18 astatine the clip of the killing. Grayson was 19.