Hunt admitted to his girlfriend that he had killed Adolfo. The two then parted ways, with Hunt boarding a bus alone to Santa Monica, California. On November 23, he was apprehended at a Tulsa, Oklahoma bus station, after a woman on the bus alerted authorities when she spotted him acting suspiciously. He was held at a Tulsa jail before being extradited back to Maryland to face trial for murder. He was also charged with using a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence, as well as unlawfully carrying a handgun. Hunt was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in June 1986 and sentenced to death. He converted to Islam while on death row. Execution Hunt originally requested to be executed by gas chamber. In an interview with The Baltimore Sun, Hunt revealed he had chosen this method because he wanted his death to look more like murder, as well as maximizing the violence of his execution carried out by the state. He later switched to lethal injection when he learned that his mother and bride wanted to witness the execution. On July 2, 1997, after making a final statement in which he said a prayer in Arabic, Hunt was executed via lethal injection at the Maryland Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m. He was the second person executed in Maryland since the 1976 Gregg v. Georgia decision, and the first inmate to be executed by the state involuntarily. He was also the 400th person to be executed in the United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. See also Capital punishment in Maryland Capital punishment in the United States References 1959 births 1997 deaths 20th-century executions of American people 20th-century executions by Maryland American people executed for murdering police officers People convicted of murder by Maryland People executed by Maryland by lethal injection