Florida Executes Death Row Inmate for 1986 Stabbing Murder

Darryl B. Barwick, a Florida man who stabbed a woman 37 times in 1986, killing her, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday. Barwick had been released from prison for rape just months before committing the murder. He was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal for a stay of execution. Barwick apologized to the victim's family before his execution and criticized Florida's sentencing of teenagers to life in prison. This was the third execution conducted in Florida this year and the state's 102nd execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.