MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WDNews) – The Supreme Court has scheduled the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt, according to an official execution warrant signed by Governor Kay Ivey.
Hunt is set to be executed during a 30-hour window that begins at midnight on Thursday, May 30, 2024, and ends at 6 a.m. on Friday, May 31, 2024. The warrant authorizes the Alabama Department of Corrections to carry out the execution at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
Hunt was convicted of the 1988 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Jacqueline Lynn Harville, in Montgomery County.
This will mark the state’s latest use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution following its approval as an alternative to lethal injection.
