An Azle man seeking to stop his execution because he claims religious freedom violations and indifference to his medical needs is scheduled to die Wednesday...
, arguing his religious rights are being violated because the state prison system, in the wake of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on what spiritual advisers can do while in the execution chamber, did not create a written policy on the issue, according to an Associated Press report.was his and would ruin his new marriage. DNA evidence later proved the baby wasn’t Barbee’s.
He was accused by prosecutors of suffocating Underwood and then doing the same to Jayden when Jayden heard the attack and walked in on it.When detectives first brought him in for questioning, Barbee said he hadn’t seen Underwood for months. But when he went to the bathroom alone with a detective, police said that he admitted to the killing. The conversation wasn’t recorded, and Barbee later said it was coerced.
“I’ve forgiven Stephen. I really have in my heart, but there’s a difference between forgiveness and justice, and my family deserves justice,” Sheila Underwood told the Star-Telegram in 2021. “My thinking was, he watched my family take their last breath, I will watch him take his last breath.”©2022 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit
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