Alabama announced details of when it plans to execute James Barber next week.

The execution is set to begin at 6 p.m. at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, according to a statement Monday from the Alabama Department of Corrections. Barber was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2001. Barber beat the 75-year-old woman to death with his fists and a claw hammer in her home in Madison County.

Until now, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey had only released the general time frame for the lethal injection execution of Barber, who is still fighting a legal battle to halt it.

Barber’s execution would be the first to occur under a new rule adopted by the Alabama Supreme Court that gives the state more time to put inmates to death. Instead of being limited by the death warrant to a single day, the governor is allowed to pick a time frame within the 30-day window set by the court.

In May, the governor announced Barber’s execution, would happen within a 30-hour period that begins at 12 a.m. on July 20 and ends at 6 a.m. on July 21.

The change to a longer time period will allow the prison system more time to prepare the intravenous lines into the veins of an inmate. Alabama had to call off two executions last year – Alan Eugene Miller in September and Kenneth Eugene Smith in November – because of concerns they would not be finished when the execution warrants expired at midnight.

Alabama, in part, has blamed the inability to get IV lines set by midnight on last-minute legal maneuvering by the inmates and their attorneys that cause a delay in beginning the preparations. Attorneys for the inmates have called the prolonged prodding and sticking to find veins over several hours cruel and unusual punishment and a constitutional violation. The state claims that doesn’t constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

New rules came after Ivey called for a moratorium late last year following the failed attempts of Miller and Smith and prolonged execution in July 2022 of Joe Nathan James Jr.