Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday set a 30-hour time frame for the execution to occur, meaning the 49-year-old can be put to death via lethal injection at any point during that period. That time frame begins 12 a.m. Thursday, November 16, and ends at 6 a.m. on Friday, November 17. The time frame comes after a new state rule allows for an execution warrant to be issued for a “time frame” rather than a single day, allowing the governor to choose the timing of an execution. It’s a shift from how the process formerly worked, when the high court set a 24-hour period for executions. If an execution didn’t happen by midnight on that specified date, the execution had to be called off.

I know it’s a sensitive topic, but the change from “one day” to “time period” was because the state kept botching executions, and their response was to just allow for more time so that more attempts at execution could be made, which is a whole other kind of barbaric.