{"id":289054,"date":"2025-06-12T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/state-kills-gregory-hunt-in-third-execution-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:49:00","slug":"state-kills-gregory-hunt-in-third-execution-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=289054","title":{"rendered":"State kills Gregory Hunt in third execution of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The state killed Gregory Hunt Tuesday at 6:26 p.m., according to a release from the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in 1990 convicted Hunt on two charges of murder during sexual abuse and one charge of murder during a robbery for the 1988 slaying of Karen Lane.<\/p>\n<p>The jury voted 11-1 in favor of the death penalty, enough to impose the sentence. Alabama is one of only two states that allow the death penalty to be invoked by a non-unanimous jury.<\/p>\n<p>A group opposed to the death penalty delivered a petition to Ivey Monday morning asking to halt the execution partly because Hunt ministered to other inmates on death row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGregory Hunt spent more time on death row than Karen spent alive,\u201d said Attorney General Steve Marshall in a statement Wednesday. \u201cIf he had any real evidence of innocence, he had more than three decades to present it. He did not. What he and his supporters offered instead was a last-minute spectacle aimed at rewriting history and distracting from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team never gave up. Karen deserves more than silence. She deserves to be remembered for who she was, and yet some have made this case about her killer, barely mentioning her name. That is not justice. That is a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time the state has executed an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia asphyxiation, a relatively new method of execution that the state has pioneered and has drawn criticism from some as individuals have been seen writhing in response to the gas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marshall emphasized in the release that the method is \u201chumane and effective,\u201d and the state has previously said any distress shown by the persons being killed is due to them holding their breath, not the gas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state killed Gregory Hunt Tuesday at 6:26 p.m., according to a release from the governor\u2019s office. 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