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Alabama execution is set despite opposition from the victim's family

This Alabama Department of Corrections photo shows inmate Joe Nathan James Jr. Terryln Hall said the family opposes Alabama's plan to execute the man convicted of killing their mother. (Alabama Department of Corrections/AP)

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday evening who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago, despite a request from the victim's family to spare his life.

Joe Nathan James Jr. is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at a south Alabama prison. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of Faith Hall, 26, in Birmingham. Hall's daughters have said they would rather James serve life in prison. But Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Wednesday she planned to let the execution proceed.

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