By DON FLETCHER
News Staff Writer
Gov. Kay Ivey has established the date and time window during which the execution of convicted killer Carey Dale Grayson will take place.
According to a letter sent from the governor to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, the execution will take place during a 34-hour time frame that starts at midnight Thursday, November 21, and ends at 6 a.m. on Friday, November 22.
Ivey pointed out that the order issued August 12 by the Alabama Supreme Court “constitutes the death warrant” for Grayson, who was convicted in 1994 of the murder of 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux, a hitchhiker who was on her way from Tennessee to her mother’s house in Louisiana.
Grayson, who was 19 at the time, and three men who were under the age of 18 offered the woman a ride. They took her to a wooded area of Jefferson County, where they beat her, tortured, killed her and threw her body off a cliff.
Grayson’s accomplices were too young to receive the death penalty and were sentenced to life in prison.
Gov. Ivey said she “has no current plans to grant clemency” to Grayson, although she “retains the authority to grant a reprieve or a commutation, if necessary.”