A man who killed his wife and another woman was executed in the United States

2023-08-04 03:42:00

Barnes, 61, was executed after a 15-year sentence for killing his wife and a nurse.

A man who had been on death row for more than 15 years for the murders of his wife and another woman was executed this Thursday with a lethal injection in the state of Floridain the United States, reported the local and international press.

James Barnes, 61 and that he did not try to stop the fulfillment of the capital sentence, he was executed at 6:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. in Argentina) in the Florida state prison, local television stations reported, according to the AFP news agency.

Barnes was serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife Linda, which occurred in 1997, when he confessed that in 1988 he had raped and killed Patricia Miller, a 41-year-old nurse.

retried, he was sentenced to death in 2007.

Interviewed by the German film director Werner Herzog for the television series “On Death Row” in 2012, Barnes confessed to two other homicides for which he was never charged.

At the end of last month, the bishops gathered in the Florida Catholic Conference asked the governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, to prevent Barnes’s execution.

Nevertheless, the official signed the death warrant and did not witness the execution.

Barnes was the fifth sentenced to death executed in Florida and the seventeenth throughout the United States so far in 2023.