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The Birmingham News reports:
Alabama has executed James Barber for the 2001 beating death of a 75-year-old Madison County woman.
The execution early Friday morning at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore came after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Barber, 64, to stop the lethal injection execution because he claimed the previous two attempts on other inmates in 2022 were botched due to the extended time it took prison personnel to identify veins for the IVs.
The U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for the execution after issuing an order just after 12 a.m. Friday rejecting Barber’s appeal. Justices voted 6-3 to deny the appeal. John Q. Hamm, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, said officials needed three sticks of Barber to secure two IV lines within six minutes. Barber had IV lines in each hand.
Read the full article. Photo: Gov. Kay Ivey.
BREAKING: #SCOTUS denies a stay of execution for James Barber, over the dissent of the three liberal justices. SCOTUS will not stop Alabama from proceeding with its planned execution. Sotomayor writes the dissent, joined by Kagan and Jackson. https://t.co/8MJMBMoHI4 pic.twitter.com/kC99ywX4vo
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 21, 2023
Here is my eyewitness account of Alabama’s execution of James Barber. https://t.co/2YIamXE3XR #deathpenalty
— Lee Hedgepeth (@lee_hedgepeth) July 21, 2023
Alabama prisons commissioner John Hamm addresses the media after the execution of James Barber. Full eyewitness account: https://t.co/pY6beMBIDb pic.twitter.com/vumOwXMNSE
— Lee Hedgepeth (@lee_hedgepeth) July 21, 2023