Carey Grayson was executed in Alabama on 21 November 2024. In 1996, he became the last of four young males to be convicted of the 1994 murder of a woman. At four separate trials, the prosecutor used mutually incompatible theories, claiming each defendant was the most culpable. In 2004, Alabama told the US Supreme Court that Carey Grayson was not the most culpable of the four. His was the sole death sentence to survive on appeal. This was the sixth execution of the year in Alabama, the highest total in 2024 for any state.
