{"id":6939,"date":"2022-06-24T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:26:00","slug":"alabama-set-to-execute-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=6939","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Set to Execute Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama man who murdered his ex girlfriend in 1994, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection on July 28.\u00a0 Ivana Hrynkiw of the Birmingham News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birmingham\/2022\/06\/alabama-death-row-inmate-set-to-die-in-july-for-1994-slaying-of-ex-girlfriend.html\">reports<\/a> that Joe Nathan James, Jr.\u00a0 was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999 for capital murder during the commission of burglary. \u00a0 James had dated Faith Hall in the early 1990s but the relationship was volatile and Hall broke up with him.\u00a0 For the next several years James would stalk Hall, showing up at her home and threatening to kill her.\u00a0 On the day of the murder, James forced his way in to an apartment Hall was visiting, demanded information about a man she was seeing, and shot her three times when she attempted to escape.\u00a0 After shooting Hall in the stomach and chest, he shot her in the head as she lay on the floor.\u00a0 On appeal James&#8217; 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