Gregory Hunt was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of Karen Lane
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An Alabama Death Row inmate had his appeal denied by the state’s highest criminal appeals court.
Gregory Hunt’s conviction and death sentence were affirmed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the court announced Friday in its weekly order list.
Hunt, now 58, is currently on death row at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. He was convicted in 1990 for a murder in Walker County.
Hunt was part of a multi-plaintiff lawsuit that was dismissed earlier this summer. Court records show John Palombi, a federal public defender for the Middle District of Alabama, and Deputy AG Thomas Govan filed a motion to dismiss the case because the inmates named in the lawsuit elected a new form of execution, which was made legal in June. Because the inmates opted to die by nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection, their claims in the lawsuit were considered moot.
The case was originally filed in 2012 by death row inmates, including several who have been executed since that time. The case focused on what the inmates said were challenges to the constitutionality of Alabama’s current three-drug method of execution, which includes the sedative midazolam.
According to the joint motion, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into state law on March 22 a bill that approved nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. Under the amended law, lethal injection will remain the primary method of capital punishment, but inmates sentenced to die will be provided an opportunity to choose nitrogen hypoxia instead.
Each surviving plaintiff in the suit– Hunt, Carey Dale Grayson, Demetrius Frazier, David Lee Roberts, Robin Dion Myers, Geoffrey Todd West, Charles Lee Burton, and David Wilson– chose the method of nitrogen hypoxia and alerted the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Details regarding the state’s planned protocol for execution by nitrogen hypoxia, or when the state would be able to implement the method, have not been released.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/08/walker_county_man_on_death_row.html
