A vicious Death Row murderer uttered seven sickening last words when given the chance before being gassed to death using a controversial method of execution last night.

Carey Dale Grayson, convicted of the brutal 1994 slaying of hitchhiker Vickie Deblieux, became the third person to be executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday.

Vickie Deblieux, 37, was hitchhiking from Tennessee to her mother’s home in Louisiana when she was picked up by four people who transported her to a secluded wooded area. There, they savagely attacked her, beating her before throwing her off a cliff.

The execution took place at the state prison in Atmore, a small town bordering Florida about 50 miles north of Pensacola.

The curtain on the death chamber opened around 6:06 p.m. local time on Thursday. After the warden read the death sentence, he put the microphone in Grayson’s face and asked him if he had any last words.

Grayson said, “To you, you need to screw yourself.” The principal quickly removed the microphone after Grayson responded with the obscenity and then raised both middle fingers to the principal.

He was then forced to suffocate with an influx of atmospheric gas fed through a mask while strapped to a stretcher, it reports. the US mirror.

Grayson was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m.

Alabama began using nitrogen gas for some executions earlier this year. The method involves placing a breathing gas mask over the person’s face to replace breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death from lack of oxygen.

The execution was carried out hours after the US Supreme Court rejected Grayson’s request for a stay. His lawyers had argued that the method needed more analysis before it could be used again.

Deblieux’s mutilated body was found at the bottom of a cliff near Odenville, Alabama on February 26, 1994.

She was hitchhiking from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to her mother’s home in West Monroe, Louisiana, when the four teenagers offered her a ride. Prosecutors said the teenagers took her to a wooded area and attacked and beat her.

They threw her off a cliff and later returned to mutilate her body.

A medical examiner testified that the victim’s face was so fractured that it was identified by an earlier X-ray of the spine. Investigators said the teenagers were identified as suspects after one of them showed a friend one of Vickie Deblieux’s severed fingers and bragged about the crime.

Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement minutes after Thursday’s execution, saying she was praying that the crime victim’s loved ones would find closure and healing decades after the murder.

“Some thirty years ago, Vicki DeBlieux’s trip to her mother’s house, and ultimately her life, were cut horribly short by Carey Grayson and three other men. She sensed something was wrong, tried to escape, but was instead brutally tortured and killed. ,” Kay said in the statement. Grayson’s crimes “were heinous, unimaginable, without an iota of respect for human life, and just inexplicably evil. An execution by hypoxic nitrogen (bears) no comparison to the death and dismemberment suffered by Ms. DeBlieux,” she added.

Grayson was the only one of the four teenagers to be sentenced to death, as the other teens were under 18 at the time of the murder. Grayson was 19 years old.

Two of the teenagers were initially sentenced to death, but those sentences were overturned when the Supreme Court banned the execution of criminals who were under 18 at the time of their crimes. Another teenager involved in Deblieux’s murder was sentenced to life in prison.

Grayson’s final objections focused on a call for closer scrutiny of the nitrogen gas method. His lawyers argued that the person was experiencing “conscious asphyxiation” and that the first two nitrogen executions did not result in rapid unconsciousness and death, as the state had promised.

Attorneys for the Alabama attorney general’s office asked the justices to let the execution go ahead, saying a lower court found Grayson’s claims speculative.