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Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola wrote in an email that the governor “will carefully review all of the facts and information surrounding the case.” The governor has not indicated what she plans to do. James,” Givan said in a statement.Īlabama Attorney General Steve Marshall urged Ivey to let the execution proceed, despite the request from the victim’s family, writing that, “it is our obligation to ensure that justice is done for the people of Alabama.” “In this case, the Hall family, with deep prayer, consideration, and conviction, is asking you to have mercy by sparing the life of Mr. Kay Ivey relaying the family’s request to stop the execution. Juandalynn Givan sent a letter to Alabama Gov. And once I had kids of my own, you know, I can’t pass it down to my kids and have them walk around with hate in their hearts,” she said. As I got older and realized, you can’t walk around with hate in your heart. And I know hate is such a strong feeling word, but I really did have hate in my heart. The road to forgiveness was a long process for Hall. “He took a big piece of us away, a big piece of our heart away,” she said. Hall said her only real memory of her mother is as a hard worker who took care of her daughters and “whoever else was around.” Why would he do that? That’s still a question that I want to know to this day: Why?” she said. “I knew that she wasn’t coming back, but I just never understood why. Six-year-old Terryln Hall struggled to understand what had happened to her mother.

James was retried and again sentenced to death in 1999, when jurors rejected defense claims that he was under emotional duress at the time of the shooting.įaith Hall was 26 when she died, leaving behind two young daughters. The conviction was overturned when the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a judge wrongly admitted some police reports into evidence. A Jefferson County jury convicted James of capital murder in 1996 and voted to recommend the death penalty, which a judge imposed. 15, 1994, he forced his way inside an apartment, pulled a gun from his waistband and shot her three times.

We really wish there was something that we could do to stop it,” Hall said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.įaith Hall briefly dated James, but he became obsessed with her, prosecutors said. “We thought about it and prayed about it, and we found it in ourselves to forgive him for what he did.

(Alabama Department of Corrections via AP) Unless a judge, or the governor, intervenes, Joe Nathan James Jr., will be given a lethal injection on Thursday, Jat a south Alabama prison. Terryln Hall said she, her sister and her mother’s brother oppose Alabama’s plan to execute the man convicted of killing their mother. This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Joe Nathan James Jr.