Scheduled Execution (08/03/23): James Barnes – Florida Death Row – The Burning Bed Murder

Описание: James Phillip Barnes (61) is scheduled to be executed on August 3, 2023 for the 1988 murder of Patricia “Patsy” Miller in Melbourne, Florida. Barnes was already serving a life sentence for the 1997 murder of his wife, Linda Barnes, when DNA collected from him in 2006 linked him to the 1988 murder. In 2010, Barnes also confessed during a Werner Herzog Documentary to killing a woman named Brenda Fletcher in 1991 and a runaway-teenager named Chester Ralph Wetmore in the late 80’s when he believed that Chester had stolen his drug supply.

UPDATE (THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2023): James Barnes (61) was executed this evening by the State of Florida. Official time of death was 6:13PM local time. Barnes declined a request for a final meal and although he had converted to Islam in 2005, he declined having a spiritual advisor present. Barnes spoke no last words prior to the procedure, however, it is speculated that he may have left confessions in writing of additional unsolved crimes and murders he had committed, based on his 2010 interview with Werner Herzog, when he'd promised he would when his execution is imminent.

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