Florida will execute this Wednesday a man convicted of killing a young woman in 1986

The state of Florida (USA) will execute this Wednesday, by means of a legal injection, Darryl B. Barwick, 56, for the murder of a 24-year-old girl in 1986.

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The Florida Supreme Court rejected last Friday an appeal in which lawyers for Barwick they argued that he should not be executed because he suffers from chronic mental illness and is intellectually disabled.

They have also appealed to US Supreme Courtwhich has not yet been pronounced.

As determined in the trial, on March 31, 1986 Barbwick saw Rebecca Wendt sunbathing in the pool of the apartment complex where he lived in Panama City (Northwest Florida).

When Wendt He returned to his apartment Barwick He followed her inside with the intent to rob and, when she resisted, he stabbed her to death.

When he was arrested, he confessed to the murder, but insisted that he only entered the apartment of Wendt to steal.

With Barwick There will be three people sentenced to death executed so far this year in Florida, where there were no executions between 2020 and 2022.

the governor of Floridathe republican Ron DeSantiswho has promoted a legal change so that a unanimous jury verdict is no longer necessary to sentence a person to death, signed the execution warrant for Barwick at the beginning of April.

Since the death penalty was reinstated in Florida in 1976, 101 people have been executed. On death row in this southern state there are 297 convicts, according to figures from the state Department of Corrections (Prisons).

On April 12, he was executed. Louis Bernard Gaskin56, for a double homicide committed in 1989, and on February 23 Donald Dillbeck, 59, convicted of two first-degree murders, the first committed with a firearm in 1979, while he was a minor, and another stabbed in 1990.

As happened before the executions of Dillbeck and Gaskinthe Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops (FCCB) asked Governor DeSantis to stay the execution of Darryl Barwick and commute his sentence to life without parole.

“State-sanctioned murder only continues to foster disrespect for the dignity and sanctity of human life. Taking another life is unnecessary, as society can be kept safe from Mr. Barwick by the severe and appropriate punishment of imprisonment for life.”, he wrote in a letter addressed on April 26 to DeSantis Michael Sheedyexecutive director of FCCB.

Florida Catholics are called to gather tomorrow to pray for Wendt and Barwickaccording to FCCB.

Source: Elcomercio

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