The Nation - News from April 17, 1986
A convicted killer who asked that no appeals be filed in his name was executed by lethal injection. “I’m sorry for what I done. I deserve this. I hope Jesus forgives me,” Jeffery Allen Barney, 28, said shortly before he was pronounced dead in the Walls Unit prison in Huntsville, Tex. Barney, a native of Dayton, Ohio, was convicted of the 1981 strangling and rape of the wife of a minister who helped Barney get a job after his release from prison on an auto theft conviction.
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