Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the head during a robbery at the gas station where she worked. Berry and West exchanged letters ahead of West’s scheduled execution by nitrogen gas Thursday in Alabama. A jury convicted West of capital murder during a robbery and voted 10-2 to recommend a death sentence. The prison system denied Berry and West’s request to meet in person, citing security regulation forbidding visits between people in prison and victims. Ivey has commuted one death sentence.