Florida to execute prisoner for 1986 deadly stabbing of girl
Florida is scheduled to execute a person for breaking into a lady’s house and stabbing her to dying in 1986
STARKE, Fla. — Florida is scheduled to execute a person Wednesday for breaking into a lady’s house and stabbing her to dying in 1986, a criminal offense that got here months after he was launched from jail for rape.
Darryl B. Barwick, 56, is about to be executed at 6 p.m. at Florida State Jail in Starke.
Barwick confessed to killing 24-year-old Rebecca Wendt in her Panama Metropolis condominium on March 31, 1986, after watching her sunbathing exterior and following her again to her room. He stated he meant to rob Wendt however then killed her as she resisted, stabbing her 37 instances whereas she tried to struggle him off.
Wendt’s bathing swimsuit appeared as if somebody had tried unsuccessfully to take away it, officers stated. There was no proof of sexual assault, however medical experts reported discovering semen on a blanket the place her physique was discovered.
Authorities linked Barwick to the crime by way of his confession, the semen stain, a witness who noticed him heading towards and leaving Wendt’s condominium, and footprints left inside and out of doors the condominium.
He was convicted of first-degree homicide, armed housebreaking, tried sexual battery and armed theft in November 1986, and sentenced to dying two months afterward the jury’s 9-3 advice. The Florida Supreme Courtroom threw out that conviction in 1989 due to prosecutorial misconduct. Barwick was once more convicted at his 1992 retrial and that jury unanimously advisable dying.
Barwick killed Wendt lower than three months after he was launched from jail for raping a 21-year-old girl at knifepoint, based on court docket information. In his confession for Wendt’s killing, Barwick stated he stabbed Wendt as a result of he didn’t need to return to jail.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Barwick’s dying warrant final month. It’s the third execution scheduled in Florida this 12 months after a break courting again to 2019. The execution will mark the state’s 102nd because the reinstatement of the dying penalty in 1976.
