Flint Gregory Hunt

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.

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.

On the evening of November 18, 1985, while out on patrol in Baltimore, Maryland, 25-year-old police officer Vincent J. Adolfo spotted a Cadillac with a missing window that was covered with plastic. He noted that four people were in the vehicle and decided to investigate. He soon learned the vehicle had been reported stolen. Adolfo called for backup while tailing the car. Two responding units set up a road block ahead. The driver of the stolen vehicle was 26-year-old Hunt, who jumped out of the vehicle as he got near the road block. The vehicle continued moving and collided with one of the patrol cars blocking the road. The officers apprehended the three remaining occupants.

Flint Gregory Hunt (June 27, 1959 – July 2, 1997) was an American murderer executed by the state of Maryland in 1997. Hunt shot Baltimore police officer Vincent Adolfo twice in an East Baltimore alley on November 18, 1985, after Adolfo spotted him running from a stolen Cadillac. He was captured five days later at a bus station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In June 1986, a Baltimore jury convicted Hunt of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death the following month. Eleven years later, Hunt was executed by lethal injection at the Maryland State Penitentiary at the age of 38.