This photo provided by the Alabama Correctional Department is seen by Gregory Hunt, which is scheduled to execute the death penalty in Alabama on Tuesday, 2025. June 10, 1988, he was convicted. Karen Lane’s murder. (Alabama Correctional Department via AP)
Super, Ala. (AP) – A man convicted of a woman’s beating to death almost 37 years ago, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday in Alabama, when the sixth nation’s execution with nitrogen gas will be.
Gregory Hunt is scheduled to die on Tuesday night in South Alabama Prison. According to court, Hunt was convicted of killing a woman he had seen for about a month.
Alabama’s death penalty is one of the four planned this week in the US. Executions are also provided in Florida and South Carolina. Judge in Oklahoma announced a temporary stay on Monday to execute the death penalty in that state, but the State Prosecutor General seeks to abolish it.
Lane was 32 when she was killed in 1988. On August 2, in Kordova’s apartment she shared with a woman who was Hunt’s cousin.
Prosecutors said Hunt had invaded her apartment and killed her by sexually harassing. After an autopsy, the doctor testified that she died of a dumb trauma injury and that Lane suffered about 60 injuries, including 20 in the head.
1990 June 19 The jury admitted Hunt’s guilt for killing capital during sexual abuse and burglary. The jurors, voting 11-1, recommended the death penalty imposed by the judge.
Hunt’s final request for enforcement he himself made focused on the claims that prosecutors had made false statements to the jurors about the evidence of sexual abuse. An element of sexual abuse is something that increased the crime of the crime of the death penalty.
In applying the US Supreme Court, Hunt, as his lawyer, wrote that the prosecutor told the jurors that the cervical mucus was on a broom near the Hunt’s body. However, the victim did not have a cervix due to previous hysterectomy. The Cabinet of Alabama’s Attorney General called the lawsuit without merits and said that even if the prosecutor was mistaken in that statement, he did not doubt the sentence.
Hunt, talking on the phone last month from prison, did not dispute the killing tape, but said he had not sexually hooked. He also described himself as a man replaced by prison.
“Karen did not deserve what happened to her,” Hunt said.
Hunt said he was drinking and using drugs at night of crime and became jealous of seeing a Lane car with another man.
“You have your moment to Jesus. Of course, you can’t believe what happened. You can’t believe you were part of it,” Hunt said.
Hunt, who was born in 1960. And came to the death penalty in 1990, now one of the longest -term service prisoners in Alabama’s death. He said the prison became his “hospital” to cure his broken mind. He said that since 1988 He leads the Bible class, which is attended by two dozen or more prisoners.
“I’m just trying to be a light in a dark place, trying to tell people if I can change, they can also … to become love people, not hatred,” he said.
Lane’s sister refused to comment when she reached the phone. The family is expected to make a written statement on Tuesday night.
“The way she was killed is just devastating,” TV Station WBRC 2014 told Lane’s sister Denise Gurgan. In Vigilis for the victims of crime. “It’s hard enough to lose a family member to death, but when it is horrible.”
Alabama Attorney General’s office, asking Judges to dismiss Hunt’s request to execute the death penalty, wrote that Hunt was now in the queue of death longer than Lane was alive.
Last year Alabama became the first country to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas. Nitrogen was now used in five executions – four in Alabama and one in Louisiana. This method involves the use of a gas mask to force the prisoner to breathe in pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.
Hunt called Nitrogen as his choice of execution. He chose before the gas use procedures were not developed in the state of Alabama. Alabama also allows prisoners to choose a deadly injection or electric chair.