A Florida man who died by lethal injection on Thursday declined to request a last meal, prison officials said.
Unidentified assailants who opened fire in Chicago's South Side struck a two-year-old boy, claimed the life of his mother and wounded two others who were standing on a sidewalk Wednesday. inmate executed Thursday for the brutal 1988 killing of a nurse he beat with a hammer, forwent the customary last meal hours before he was pronounced dead, state corrections officials said.
The Florida Department of Corrections told Fox News Digital that Barnes declined to request the meal. State law allows inmates to request aBarnes, 61, died by lethal injection at 6:31 p.m. local time at the Florida State Prison in Starke. It was Florida's fifth execution of the year. He was serving a life sentence for the 1997 strangulation of his wife, Linda Barnes, 44, when he wrote to a state prosecutor in 2005 claiming responsibility for the killing of Patricia"Patsy" Miller.James Phillip Barnes is set to be executed Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023 after dropping all appeals in the 1988 slaying of a woman who was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a hammer, her body set ablaze in her own bed.
Miller was a nurse who lived in a Melbourne, Florida, condominium and had some negative interactions with him prior to"There were several events that happened . I felt terribly humiliated, that’s all I can say," Barnes said in the jailhouse interview with German film director Werner Herzog. Barnes killed Miller inside her home on April 20, 1988, and admitted in court to raping her twice and hit her in the head with a hammer and set her bed on fire. in 1997, after she discovered that he was dealing drugs. Her body was found stuffed in a closet after she was strangled, court records show. Barnes has claimed to have killed at least two other people but has never been charged in those cases.
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