Executions resume in Alabama
After a moratorium due to botched lethal injections, a 64-year-old man, convicted of murder, was put to death this Friday morning.
PostedJuly 21, 2023, 1:41 PM
James Barber killed a 75-year-old woman with a hammer in 2003.
Alabama Department of Corrections
A 64-year-old inmate on death row for murder was executed in Alabama on Friday by lethal injection, the first in the US state since a series of botched executions last year, officials said.
James Barber was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m. Friday (8:56 a.m. in Switzerland) at Holman Jail in Atmore, Alabama, state Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement. He was convicted in 2003 of beating 75-year-old Dorothy Epps to death with a hammer during a 2001 robbery.
Three hours to install an IV
The governor of Alabama had declared a temporary moratorium on executions last year after problems with lethal injections. In one such case, the July 2022 execution of Joe James Jr., it took more than three hours to set up an IV drip. Two other execution attempts had to be stopped due to problems in the placement of these infusions.
Barber was the first prisoner to be put to death in Alabama since the moratorium on executions was lifted after a review of proceedings ended in February.
In the state of Oklahoma, another 51-year-old inmate, Jemaine Cannon, sentenced to death for the murder of a woman nearly 30 years ago, was also executed Thursday by lethal injection.
(AFP)
2023-07-21 11:41:35
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