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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 ..