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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…

Barber was sentenced to death after confessing to having murdered 75-year-old Dorothy Epps with a claw hammer.

Convicted murderer James Barber was executed early Friday morning by the state of Alabama, the state's first lethal injection since its pause on capital punishment was lifted in February after a review of failed attempts.

James Barber was convicted of beating a 75-year-old woman to death with a claw hammer in 2001. A jury recommended the death penalty, which a judge granted.

The Supreme Court's three liberal justices, led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rebuked the majority's early Friday decision to allow the execution of an Alabama death row inmate who raised concerns about the state's record of botched lethal injection procedures.

The state of Alabama executed death row inmate James Barber early Friday after the Supreme Court denied his last minute request for a stay on the grounds that the state had botched its last two previous attempts.

James Barber, 64, was pronounced dead at 1.56am after receiving a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison - his last words were addressed to the family of his victim

By Dakin Andone, Rebekah Riess and Melissa Alonso, CNN

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a man this morning for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after failed executions p

A convicted murderer was executed in Alabama early Friday, officials said, in the first use of lethal injection in the southern US state since a series of botched executions last year. James Barber was pronounced dead at 1:56 am (0656 GMT) Friday at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabam ..