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May 15, 2026

Gregory Hunt: The Long Road to Alabama's Death Chamber

Gregory Hunt: The Long Road to Alabama's Death Chamber

On the evening of June 10, 2025, inside the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, Gregory Hunt became the sixth person in the United States to be executed using nitrogen hypoxia, a method in which a person breathes pure nitrogen until oxygen deprivation causes death. He was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m., bringing to a close one of Alabama's longest-running death penalty cases.

Hunt had spent more than three decades on death row. His case dated back to the summer of 1988, when Karen Lane, a 32-year-old woman from Walker County, Alabama, was found dead inside the apartment she shared with a friend in the town of Cordova. Hunt and Lane had reportedly been dating for only about a month before the killing.

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