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Murder of Vickie Deblieux

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641:, a motion by the attorney general's office was filed to seek approval of Grayson's second death warrant; the representatives of the state asked for Grayson's execution to be carried out with nitrogen gas, which was the third time where Alabama would possibly carry out an execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Grayson had reportedly elected to be executed by nitrogen gas inhalation in 2018, based on court documents presented in the hearing. However, there were lingering concerns over the effectiveness of the nitrogen gas execution, as it was reported that the first person put to death via this method had convulsed in "seizure-like spasms" and gasped for breath minutes before falling motionless, although government officials defended this method by stating there were no major problems arising from this method and it was "textbook". 303:, Deblieux encountered a group of four youths, who were all drinking alcohol and using drugs when they first met her. The four youths – 19-year-old Carey Dale Grayson, 17-year-old Trace Royal Duncan, 16-year-old Louis Christopher Mangione, and 17-year-old Kenneth Loggins (Kenny Loggins or Kenney Loggins) – offered her a ride to Louisiana. However, while they were driving in the van, the group deviated from the route and instead took Deblieux to a wooded area, on the pretense of picking up another vehicle. 439:, making it unconstitutional for juveniles to serve mandatory life sentences without parole and the new laws allowed judges to decide whether or not to grant juveniles serving life sentences the possibility of parole, including the past court cases prior to 2012. Many of the juveniles serving life without parole, including Kenneth Loggins, Trace Duncan, and Louis Mangione of the 1994 Deblieux killing, applied for their life terms to carry the possibility of release on parole. 362:
of a death sentence for Grayson. The prosecution later sought to have all four youths face the death penalty for murdering Deblieux and highlighted that the brutality of the crime and gruesomeness of Deblieux's death made it deserving for all four boys to be executed. A sentencing trial for all four accused was scheduled to take place on March 8, 1996.
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On March 8, 1996, Circuit Judge Mike McCormick followed the jury's recommendations in the four accused's respective cases. He spared Mangione the death sentence and ordered that he be jailed for life without the possibility of parole while sentencing the remaining three accused – Grayson, Duncan, and
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After reaching the forest, the four boys began to drink and threw their beer bottles at Deblieux, who tried to escape. The boys managed to restrain her and tackled her to the ground and they started to physically assault Deblieux by kicking her repeatedly all over her body. When they noticed that the
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The trio completed the grisly task and they spent the night in Birmingham by falling asleep in the truck. By daylight, Grayson's girlfriend found her boyfriend and the two others covered in mud and blood while they remained sleeping in the truck. When his girlfriend probed him about the bloodstains,
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After his death sentence was set aside in favor of life imprisonment in 2005, Duncan's life sentence originally did not carry the possibility of parole. However in 2012, a landmark case banned the mandatory sentencing of juveniles to life without parole, enabling Duncan to be granted the chance for
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Carey Dale Grayson was the final member of the four to be tried for Deblieux's murder, and his trial began on January 29, 1996. Grayson was convicted four days later on February 2, 1996, and six days later, the jury deliberated for 15 minutes before they unanimously returned with the recommendation
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case, a majority ruling of 5 to 4 formally decreed that it was unconstitutional to execute offenders who were below 18 at the time of their crimes. This ruling made an impact on many cases of juveniles on death row, including the two teenagers (Kenneth Loggins and Trace Duncan of the 1994 Deblieux
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Kenneth Eugene Smith, the first convicted killer executed with this method in Alabama, had allegedly experienced seizure-like spasms, and this could amount to cruel and unusual punishment since it did not guarantee a painless death for Grayson. This motion is currently pending before the courts.
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Days after the death warrant was issued, Grayson's lawyers filed a legal motion and sought to stave off the impending execution, citing that Grayson should not be put to death by nitrogen gas due to potential problems with the new execution method, noting that there were witness statements that
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After a series of re-sentencing hearings, both Mangione and Duncan were each granted the chance for parole after a minimum of 35 years and their earliest parole hearings would take place in 2029. However, Loggins, whose hearing took place in 2018, was denied the chance of parole and hence, his
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Kenneth Loggins was initially set to stand trial in September 1995, but his trial was delayed due to the psychologist failing to submit a report on time to determine Loggins's mental state at the time, and it was rescheduled on November 27, 1995. Loggins, who pleaded innocent by insanity, was
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After murdering Deblieux, the four kept her luggage and body inside the back of a pickup truck and drove to Bald Rock Mountain, where they pilfered her ring and clothes and sexually abused her body before throwing it off the cliff. The body was left behind while the youths drove the truck to
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On February 26, 1994, four days after she was murdered, whatever remained of Deblieux's body was discovered by three rock climbers. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to Deblieux's head and asphyxiation was a possible contributing factor.
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Mangione's original sentence was life without parole, which was imposed in 1996. In 2012, a landmark case banned the mandatory sentencing of juveniles to life without parole, enabling Mangione to be granted the chance for parole after a minimum of 35
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after his lawyers appealed to challenge the change of drug use in the lethal injection protocols of Alabama. In 2015, Grayson was one of five death row prisoners who filed a lawsuit opposing the state authorities' bid to administer large doses of
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Five days after the Supreme Court approved Grayson's death warrant, his death sentence was scheduled to be carried out via nitrogen hypoxia on November 21, 2024, making him the third person in Alabama to face a nitrogen gas execution after
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On January 28, 2006, an Alabama state court allowed the re-sentencing plea of Kenneth Loggins and commuted his death sentence to life without parole. Loggins was the 13th juvenile on death row to have his sentence reduced since 2005.
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Five years after his re-sentencing, Kenneth Loggins filed an appeal in 2011 for a further reduction of his life sentence, stating that sentencing minors to life without parole was unconstitutional, but it was dismissed.
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Louis Mangione was the second offender to be convicted on November 18, 1995. However, unlike Duncan, Mangione was spared the death sentence after the jury recommended that he be sentenced to the minimum punishment of
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Between November 1995 and February 1996, the four offenders – Louis Mangione, Carey Dale Grayson, Kenneth Loggins, and Trace Duncan – were tried in separate state courts in Alabama for the murder of Vickie Deblieux.
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After a 2012 landmark case banned the mandatory sentencing of juveniles to life without parole, Loggins applied for his life sentence to carry the possibility of parole in 2018 but he was denied the chance of
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victim was still alive, Grayson and one of his younger friends (Loggins) stood on the throat of Deblieux, who gurgled blood and later died as a result in the early hours of February 22, 1994.
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murder case), and these offenders were allowed to apply for a reduction of their death sentences to life imprisonment, given that both of them were minors at the time of the murder.
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In 2001, the Alabama Supreme Court once again upheld and therefore finalized the death sentences of the condemned trio (Grayson, Duncan, and Loggins) after dismissing their appeals.
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On November 2, 1995, three days before his 18th birthday, Trace Duncan became the first out of the four to be convicted of murder, and the jury recommended that Duncan should be
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on September 26. A 30-hour time window was set between midnight of November 21, 2024, and 6:00 a.m. of November 22, 2024, for the execution to be carried out.
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The re-sentencing of both Duncan and Loggins left Carey Dale Grayson, who was 19 at the time of the murder, the only convict of the case to remain on
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as early as 2018, making it possible for Grayson to choose either method to facilitate his impending execution, for which a date had yet to be set.
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After exhausting all avenues of appeal in the state appeal process in 2006, Grayson brought forward his case to federal court and filed a plea of
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While Grayson was still incarcerated on death row, the laws of Alabama allowed the state to carry out executions by either lethal injection or
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Loggins was born on September 15, 1976, at the time of the killing, which made him 17 years and five months old at the time of the murder.
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subsequently convicted in December of that same year, and among the 12-member jury, ten jurors recommended the death penalty for Loggins.
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Duncan was born on November 15, 1976, at the time of the killing, which made him 17 years and three months old at the time of the murder.
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In 1999, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama also rejected the appeal of Loggins. In 2000, Loggins lost his second appeal to the
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On the night of February 21, 1994, 37-year-old Vicki Lynn DeBlieux, better known as Vickie Deblieux, was dropped off by a friend near
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to clean the vehicle and remove the bloodstains. They also disposed of Deblieux's luggage in the woods. The four drove back to
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on November 21, 2024. Grayson is slated to be the third person to undergo execution by nitrogen gas in Alabama, after
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Eventually, in 2012, Alabama revised its life imprisonment laws for juveniles through the landmark ruling of
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Currently, Grayson's death warrant was approved by the Supreme Court, and he is scheduled to be executed by
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In April 2005, Trace Duncan's death sentence was commuted to life in jail without any chance for parole.
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By April 1994, all four youths were arrested and charged for the torture and murder of Vickie Deblieux.
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approved the death warrant for Grayson, and a court order was issued for the Alabama Governor
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In 1998, Louis Mangione's appeal against his conviction and sentence was dismissed by the
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ultimately dismissed Grayson's final appeal and confirmed his death sentence.
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In 1999, Grayson was one of the five condemned to lose their appeals to the
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sentence of life without parole was still maintained by the courts.
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1994 mutilation and murder of a woman in Jefferson County, Alabama
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List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
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Grayson lied to her that they got all the blood from a dog.
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Life in prison with the possibility of parole after 35 years
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on April 12, 2012, but his execution was postponed by the
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Originally, Grayson was scheduled to be put to death by
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rejected Grayson's appeal, and another year later, the
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Commutation of Loggins's and Duncan's death sentences
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Index

Carey Dale Grayson
Jefferson County, Alabama
Capital murder
Death
Death
Death
Jefferson County, Alabama
Tennessee
Louisiana
life sentence
sentenced to death
nitrogen gas inhalation
Kenneth Eugene Smith
Alan Eugene Miller
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Jefferson County, Alabama
American
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Louisiana
Jefferson County, Alabama
Pell City
Birmingham
sentenced to death
life in prison without the possibility of parole
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Alabama Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Roper v. Simmons

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