The execution of Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman has been set for June by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.

The execution by nitrogen gas will be held at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore between 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 10 and 6 a.m. Wednesday June 11, according to a statement from Ivey’s office.

Ivey stated she does not currently plan to grant Hunt clemency in the case but reserves the right to do so, according to a letter she sent to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm.

Last week the Alabama Supreme Court authorized Hunt’s execution at the request of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office.

In June 1990, a jury found Hunt guilty and by a vote of 11 to 1 recommended he be put to death for the Aug. 2, 1988, murder of Karen Lane in Walker County.

Lane was murdered in a Cordova apartment she shared with another young woman, according to court records. She suffered a total of 60 injuries, according to court appeal records. The indictment charging Hunt alleged that he had used his hands, fists, broom stick, and a bar stool to attack Lane.

Fingerprints and witness testimony linked Hunt to the scene, court records show.

Hunt was part of a multi-plaintiff lawsuit that was dismissed in 2018 challenging the state’s three-drug lethal injection method. 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, including Hunt, elected the new form of execution, nitrogen hypoxia, which was made legal that same year.

Alabama became the first in the nation to use nitrogen hypoxia in an execution last year and has since executed three others using the method. The process involves pumping nitrogen into a mask worn by the death row inmate.