Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the back of 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. It’s for the Lord,” he saidFamily members of murder victims have varied views on the death penalty. Alabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen. Ivey has commuted one death sentence.