For his last dinner, a death row murderer sipped Mountain Dew and ordered fancy meals.

In 1994, 50-year-old Carey Dale Grayson of Alabama was imprisoned for the murder of hitchhiking mother Vickie Deblieux. Before passing away on Thursday night, he asked for a sumptuous seafood feast despite being given a nitrogen gas death sentence.

Grayson preferred coffee and Mountain Dew to the breakfast and lunch plates. He ordered tostadas, beef burritos, soft tacos, and chips with guacamole from local eateries, along with seafood, and then he had a Mountain Dew Blast.

Earlier in the year, Alabama started performing some executions with nitrogen gas. By covering the face with a respirator gas mask, the technique substitutes pure nitrogen gas for breathable air, leading to oxygen-deprivation death.

The nitrogen flowed for 15 minutes, and approximately 10 minutes later, an ECG showed Grayson had lost his heartbeat, according to Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Q. Hamm.

Grayson trembled a few times, then took a series of gasping breaths, just like the two others who had been nitrogen-executed before him.

Later, the victim’s daughter informed reporters that her mother’s future had been taken away from her. She did, however, also denounce the choice to execute Grayson and the killing of prisoners in the name of justice.

State authorities were in the witness room when Grayson seemed to speak, but his voice was not audible. At the start of the execution, he gave both middle fingers.

On February 26, 1994, DeBlieux’s disfigured body was found at the base of a bluff close to Odenville, Alabama. Four teenagers offered her a lift as she was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to her mother’s home in West Monroe, Louisiana.

The teenagers allegedly led her to a forested area where they battered and abused her, according to the prosecution. They came back and dismembered her.

According to a medical examiner’s testimony, a previous X-ray of her spine showed that her face was enough broken to identify her. The teenagers were named as suspects by investigators when one of them boasted about the crime and showed a buddy one of DeBlieux’s severed fingers.

After the execution, DeBlieux’s daughter, Jodi Haley, spoke to reporters at the prison’s media center. When her mother was murdered, Haley was twelve years old. She said her mother was special. She acted without thinking. She was crazy. She had a sense of humor.

Later, Governor Kay Ivey expressed her prayers for the victims’ loved ones to find healing and closure. She stated: Some thirty years ago, Vicki DeBlieux s journey to her mother s house and, ultimately, her life, were tragically cut short by Carey Grayson and three other men. She sensed something was wrong, tried to flee, but was brutally tortured and murdered.

Grayson s atrocities were heinous, unimaginable, without an ounce of regard for human life and just unexplainably mean. She further said: An execution by nitrogen hypoxia (bears) no comparison to the death and dismemberment Ms DeBlieux experienced.

Grayson was the only one of the four teenagers facing the death penalty because the other three were under the age of 18 when they were killed. Grayson was nineteen.

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