James Barber, 64, was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m. after receiving a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison.
James Barber, 64, was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m. afterBarber was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 beating death of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps.
Barber said he wanted to tell the governor “and the people in this room that I forgive you for what you are about to do.” Attorneys for inmate Alan Miller said prison staff poked him with needles for more than an hour as they unsuccessfully tried to connect an IV line during Miller’s aborted execution in September, at one point leaving him hanging vertically on a gurney.
James Barber was convicted and sentenced to death for beating a 75-year-old woman named Dorothy Epps to death.Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent from the decision that was joined by Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.“The Eighth Amendment demands more than the State’s word that this time will be different. The Court should not allow Alabama to test the efficacy of its internal review by using Barber as its ‘guinea pig,’” Sotomayor wrote.
The last-minute legal battle centered on Alabama’s ability to obtain intravenous access in past executions.
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