Carey Dale Grayson, 49, was ex£cuted on Thursday, November 21. (read here).
He was one of four teenagers convicted of the gruesome m*rder of hitchhiker Vickie DeBlieux, 37, in Alabama in 1994.
Ms DeBlieux was making her way through the state to her mother’s home in Louisiana when she was picked up on February 21 that year.
At some point, Grayson, then 19, and his friends stopped in a wooded area on Bald Mountain where they savagely b£@t her, eventually ch0king the life out of her by standing on her throat.
They later returned to mut!late her body before tossing her from a cliff.
Grayson, Kenny Loggins, Trace Duncan and Louis Mangione were all convicted of the capital m¥rder.
But the other three all had their d€@th sentences reversed after the US Supreme Court banned the ex£cution of people who were under 18 when they committed the crime.
Ms DeBleiux’s daughter Jodi Haley was just 12 when she was m¥rdered.
Speaking to reporters at the prison’s media centre after the ex€cution, she said her mother’s life and future had been stolen.
"She was unique. She was spontaneous. She was wild. She was funny. She was gorgeous to boot," Ms Haley said of her mother.
She said Grayson was abus£d in every possible way in his youth but "society failed this man as a child, and my family suffered because of it".
"M¥rdering inmates under the guise of justice needs to stop," she said, adding: "No one should have the right to take a person’s possibilities, days, and life."
Grayson was put to d£@th at the William C Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama.
His last words were so obscene he was cut off by warden Terry Raybon before he could finish.
Addressing Mr Raybon, he raised both middle fingers and said: "For you, you need to f*** off."
The microphone was carried off seconds later when Grayson, with a gas mask strapped to his face, turned to state officials and the witness room, ranting: "For the rest of you…"
He was not allowed to finish speaking.
Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Q Hamm said the nitrogen flowed for 15 minutes, with Grayson’s heart no longer beating about 10 minutes.
