Alabama due to resume executions despite botching three last year
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6D487)
James Barber due to die on Friday but granddaughter of Dorothy Epps, the woman he murdered, doesn't want it to happen
Alabama is due to resume executions on Thursday despite botching three last year and after a review of capital punishment practices in the southern state was largely kept from public view.
The inmate set to die by lethal injection by 6am on Friday is James Barber. Now 54, he was convicted of the murder of Dorothy Epps, who was 75, in 2001.
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