Alabama death row inmate Keith Gavin to be executed on July 18 for 1998 murder [Video]

An execution date has been set for a man convicted in the 1998 killing of a delivery driver at an ATM in northeast Alabama.

Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal injection within a 30-hour time frame beginning at 12 a.m. on July 18 and ending at 6 a.m. on July 19.

Her announcement comes a week after the state Supreme Court authorized the execution.

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Gavin was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of William Clayton Jr., which took place on March 6, 1998, in the town of Centre.

Clayton, who was a delivery driver, was getting money at an ATM to take to his wife for dinner when Gavin shot him during an attempted robbery, pushed him into his van and drove off in the stolen vehicle, according to local …