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On January 9, 1998, Barnes pled guilty to murdering Linda and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The death penalty was waived. [9] In 2005, Barnes, who had converted to Islam, confessed to the unsolved murder of Patricia Miller while fasting during Ramadan. Barnes sent a letter to the assistant state attorney ...
James Phillip Barnes, 61, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison in Starke. Barnes was serving a life sentence for the 1997 strangulation of his wife ...
James Phillip Barnes, 61, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. Lying on a gurney, Barnes appeared to already have his eyes shut when the ...
The execution chamber in Florida State Prison. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida. Since 1976, the state has executed 107 convicted murderers, all at Florida State Prison. [1] As of February 15, 2025, 276 offenders are awaiting execution. [2]
On the evening before Herzog's second meeting with Barnes, he found and interviewed Barnes' estranged father. His father declined to be filmed but asked for Herzog to relay a message, "One: I love him, Two: I hate the crimes he committed." Six weeks after their first meeting, Barnes sent Herzog a letter confessing to two additional murders.
Florida lawmakers twice reduced the penalty for the drug trafficking charge for which he was sentenced to 25 years. If he were sentenced today, the maximum penalty would be seven years.
The man who served as look-out in a South Florida shooting that left three people dead and 20 others injured was sentenced to life in prison Friday. A Miami-Dade circuit judge said Davonte Barnes ...
Florida passed HB 1371, the Prisoner Release Reoffender Act, in May 1997. [2] This so-called "two-strikes" law dictates that individuals convicted of certain categories of crime who reoffend within three years is subject to life in prison without parole, even if this is only a second offense, gaining the distinction of, "one of the strictest sentencing laws in the US."