Governor Kay Ivey has set the execution of Michael Shannon Taylor for November 5 — 35 years and a day after Taylor beat 83-year-old Ivan Moore and his wife, Lucille, to death with an iron bar in their Gadsden home.

In a letter Monday to Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Lovelace, Ivey set a 30-hour window for the execution, beginning at 12:00 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, and expiring at 6:00 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6.

The Supreme Court of Alabama cleared the way in June, unanimously authorizing the commissioner to carry out Taylor’s death sentence and specifying that its order “constitutes the execution warrant for Michael Shannon Taylor.”

The court record from Taylor’s appeals lays out what happened on Nov. 4, 1991. Taylor, then a 19-year-old high school graduate absent without leave from the Navy, had returned home to Gadsden.

The Moores were an elderly couple he knew. He solicited a ride to their house, left a duffel bag outside and asked Mr. Moore if he could use the telephone. Once inside, he beat the couple to death with an iron bar — Ivan Moore was struck approximately 17 times, Lucille Moore at least 10 — then loaded their belongings into their car and drove off.

Police arrested him outside the Galleria shopping mall after he entered the Moores’ vehicle and tried to drive away.

Back in Gadsden, he confessed to the beatings.

An Etowah County jury convicted Taylor of three counts of capital murder in April 1993 and unanimously recommended death.

Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state’s high court for the execution date in March.

“There are currently no pending challenges to the validity of Taylor’s convictions and death sentence, and his conventional appeals concluded in 2016,” the motion said.

The date-setting comes months after Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton two days before his scheduled March execution.

Burton participated in the 1991 robbery of a Talladega AutoZone in which a customer was murdered, but he was not the killer. Taylor’s case offers no such distinction. He acted alone.

“Although I have no current plans to grant clemency in this case, I retain my authority under the Constitution of the State of Alabama to grant a reprieve or commutation, if necessary, at any time before the execution is carried out,” Ivey wrote.