The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court approved that request on March 11.

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday an official time for the execution of James Osgood for the murder and rape of Chilton County woman Tracy Lynn Brown in Octobe

Alabama is set to execute James Osgood in the period between midnight April 24 and 6 a.m. April 25 for the murder of Tracy Lynn Brown. Osgood was convicted in a case were he was accused of repeatedly raping Brown before and while he slashed her throat multiple times, the Montgomery Advertiser previously reported.