
A Florida man who confessed to the 1997 murder of his wife was executed for the 1988 murder of another woman who he repeatedly raped, strangled with her bathrobe belt, and killed with a hammer, before setting her bed on fire.
James Phillip Barnes, 61, refused a last meal and had nothing to say on Thursday before receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. He was pronounced dead at 6.13pm.