The son of a woman shot and killed execution-style during a gas station holdup nearly three decades ago is asking Alabama officials to spare the life of the death row inmate set to be executed in two days. Margaret Parrish Berry, a 33-year-old mother of two, was found dead face-down behind the checkout counter at a gas station in Alabama’s Etowah County on March 28, 1997. The thief holding up the gas station took $250 from a nearby cookie jar where the store’s money was stashed. 3 Will Berry is fighting to keep the man who killed his mother alive. He said that he and his girlfriend at the time were pressed for cash and went to the gas station, where he used to work, to rob it.