Alabama agrees to forgo autopsy of Muslin inmate scheduled to be executed next week

Published July 12, 2024 3:29 PM

Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has agreed to forgo an autopsy of Muslim inmate who is scheduled to be executed Thursday. Keith Edmund Gavin said the post-mortem procedure would violate his religious beliefs. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday that no autopsy will be performed. The 64-year-old inmate is scheduled to be executed July 18 by lethal injection at a south Alabama prison. Gavin was convicted of capital murder for the 1998 shooting death of William Clinton Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. Gavin filed a lawsuit last month asking a judge to block the state from performing an autopsy after his execution.

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