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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maroosha Muzaffar

Alabama governor ignores wishes of victim’s family to set execution date for man who killed girlfriend

Alabama Department of Corrections via AP

The governor of Alabama has decided to go ahead and plan for the execution of a man who killed his girlfriend decades ago, despite the victim’s family’s wishes to spare him.

Faith Hall, then 26-year-old, was fatally shot by her former boyfriend Joe Nathan James Jr nearly three decades ago in Birmingham. Now Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has said that she won’t call off the scheduled execution by lethal injection of James Jr at a south Alabama prison on Thursday evening.

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