(AL.com) A national Muslim civil rights group on Thursday urged Alabama officials to abide by Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin’s wish that an autopsy not be performed on his body after next week’s lethal-injection execution of him for the 1998 murder of a courier driver.
Gavin, 64, who describes himself as a devout Muslim, does not plan any further appeals in his case before the July 18 execution at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. But in June he filed a lawsuit asking the state to forego the usual post-execution autopsy due to his religious beliefs. The lawsuit was filed after his attorneys said they couldn’t reach a resolution with the state.
An official with the Alabama Attorney General’s Office said earlier this week that they were working on a resolution.
