The execution is the 22nd in the U.S. this year and the sixth in Alabama, which has put three of the men to death using nitrogen gas.

Grayson was one of four teenagers convicted of capital murder in the torture, bludgeoning and mutilation of Vickie Lynn Deblieux on Feb. 21, 1994.

Carey Dale Grayson is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia after being convicted of killing 37-year-old hitchhiker Vickie Deblieux in 1994.

A death row murderer has made one final defiant act, hurling seven dark last words and pulling the fingers before being executed via a new method that has been slammed at torturous. Carey Dale Grayson was convicted for the heinous 1994 murder of 37-year-old The 50-year-old murderer was one of four teenagers convicted of Deblieux’s killing as she hitchhiked through the state on the way to her mother’s home in Louisiana.

Grayson was convicted with three other men for the brutal slaying and mutilation of 37-year-old Vicki Lynn Deblieux.

Grayson’s three accomplices managed to escape execution because they were under 18 at the time of Deblieux’s murder

An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker became the third person executed by nitrogen gas in both the U.S. and Alabama.

Carey Dale Grayson was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday for the 1994 murder of Vickie Deblieux who was hitchhiking to her mother's home

Alabama executed Carey Dale Grayson via nitrogen hypoxia for the 1994 murder of Vickie Deblieux, sparking renewed debate over capital punishment.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures with his hands shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.