A 45-year-old Missouri inmate, Johnny Johnson, had been granted a stay of execution for the 2002 murder of 6-year-old Cassandra “Casey” Williamson in St. Louis County, however, a new motion by a federal appeals court reversed this decision on Saturday.
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James Barber was executed early Friday morning at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Barber’s execution was done via lethal injection and marks the continuation of the death penalty in Alabama following a series of failed lethal injection attempts in the state.
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