Barber was sentenced to death after confessing to having murdered 75-year-old Dorothy Epps with a claw hammer.
James Barber died by lethal injection at a South Alabama prison on Friday in the first execution carried out in the state this year after it halted executions last November. He was 64 years old.
Barber was pronounced dead at 1:56 A.M. Friday local time according to a report by the Associated Press. of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps. Prosecutors had said Barber was a handyman who knew Epps' daughter. He confessed to killing Epps with a claw hammer and fleeing the scene with her purse.James Barber was executed in Alabama on Friday. He was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps.
"I want to tell the Epps family I love them. I'm sorry for what happened. No words would fit how I feel," he said."and the people in this room that I forgive you for what you are about to do."The U.S. Supreme Court has denied James Barber's application for a stay of execution. The court's 3 liberal justices dissented, saying the court shouldn't allow Alabama to let James Barber be its "guinea pig.
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