MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WDNews) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has set a November execution window for death row inmate Michael Shannon Taylor.
According to a letter dated Aug. 31, Ivey set a 30-hour window beginning at 12 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, and ending at 6 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6.
Taylor was sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murders of Ivan and Lucille Moore.
The Alabama Supreme Court granted the state’s request in June to authorize the Alabama Department of Corrections to carry out Taylor’s death sentence. The court directed Ivey to set the time frame for the execution.
The Supreme Court’s order serves as Taylor’s execution warrant.
In her letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Lovelace, Ivey said she currently has no plans to grant clemency.
“Although I have no current plans to grant clemency in this case, I retain my authority under the Constitution of the State of Alabama to grant a reprieve or commutation, if necessary, at any time before the execution is carried out,” Ivey wrote.
