This photo, provided by the Alabama Amendment Division, shows Gregory Hunt, who is planned to be executed in Alabama on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. He was convicted of killing Karen Lane in 1988 (Alabama Correction Department)
Atmore, Ala. (AP) – A man convicted of a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is planned to be executed on Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the sixth nitrogen gas performance.
Gregory Hunt is planned to be killed on Tuesday night in prison in southern Alabama. Hunt was convicted of the murder of Karen Lane, a woman she met about a month, according to court records.
Alabama performance is one of the four that was scheduled this week in the United States. The executions are also scheduled in Florida and South Carolina. A judge in Oklahoma on Monday issued a temporary removal for execution in this country, but the State Prosecutor General seeks to cancel it.
Lane was 32 years old when she was killed on August 2, 1988 in Cordova’s apartment, who shared with a woman who is Hunt’s cousin.
Prosecutors said Hunt had invaded her apartment and killed her after sexually abused her. A doctor who committed an autopsy shows that she died of a dumb trauma and that Lane suffered about 60 injuries, including 20 in the head.
The hearing on June 19, 1990 found a hunt for the murder of capital during sexual abuse and burglary. The jurors, recommended by a vote of 11-1, that he received a death sentence that a judge imposed.
Hunt’s final request for termination of the execution he submitted focused on allegations that prosecutors had made false statements to the jurors regarding evidence of sexual abuse. The element of sexual abuse is what increased the crime to a crime from the death penalty.
In a submission to the US Supreme Court, Hunt, acting as his lawyer, wrote that a prosecutor told the jurors that the cervical mucus was on a broom near Hunt’s body. However, the victim did not have the cervix because of a more hysterectomy. Alabama General Prosecutor called for a request and said that even if the prosecutor had made a mistake in this statement, he did not doubt.
Hunt, speaking on the phone last month from prison, did not dispute Lane’s murder, but maintained that he did not sexually attacked her. He is also described as a person who has been imprisoned.
“Karen didn’t deserve what happened to her,” Hunt said.
Hunt said he drank and drank drugs on the night of the crime and was jealous when he saw Lane in a car with another man.
“You have your time to come.
Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death in 1990, is now one of the longest prisoners in Alabama’s death. He said the prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind. He said that since 1988 he has run a biblical class that was 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 … become people of love instead of hatred,” he said.
Lane’s sister declined to comment when they were reached by phone. The family is expected to make a written statement on Tuesday night.
“The way she was killed is simply devastating,” Denise Gurggan, Lane’s sister, told WBRC’s WBR Television Station in 2014 for victims of crimes. “It is difficult enough to lose a family member to death, but when it’s scary.”
Alabama General Prosecutor, as asking the judges to reject Hunt’s request to end the execution, wrote that Hunt was already in death longer than Lane was alive.
Alabama last year became the first country to perform with nitrogen gas. Nitrogen is now used in five executions – four in Alabama and one in Louisiana. The method involves the use of a gas mask to force a prisoner to breathe pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.
Hunt had named nitrogen as his preferred method of execution. He made the selection before Alabama developed procedures for the use of gas. Alabama also allows prisoners to choose a deadly injection or electric chair.