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SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Barton
Summary: Barton
murdered his fourth wife, Kimbirli Jo Barton, at their home in Waynesville
after they had gotten in a domestic dispute that morning. He called and
threatened Kimbirli several times the day of the killing before persuading her
to come to the house to get her belongings. When Kimbirli arrived, he appeared
and shot Kimbirli once in the shoulder and then again in the back at close
range. His uncle and Kibirli's 17 year old daughter witnessed the shooting.
Barton then shot himself with an upward blast to the chin, leaving just a scar
below his ear. Barton has a history of arrests for burglary, assault, drug and
DUI charges and violence against women. He beat one of his ex-wives with a
shotgun, stabbed her three times, cut her throat and left her for dead, but she
survived. Kimbirli had known Barton for many years, but the couple had just
married two years earlier while Barton was in prison for the attempted murder
of his ex-wife in Kentucky.
Man executed less than 4 years after killing wife; FIRST LETHAL
INJECTION WITH NEW PROCEDURES," by Alan Johnson. (Thursday, July 13, 2006)
What Rocky Barton started when he put a shotgun to his chin after
killing his wife three years ago, the state of Ohio finished yesterday. Barton,
49, was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.
His death by injection occurred without incident at 10:27 a.m.
In a sense, Barton died a little every day since Jan. 16, 2003, when he
shot and killed Kimbirli Barton, the woman he said he loved more than anyone
else and could not live without.
Consumed by guilt, Barton said he deserved to
die and didn’t want to "have to wait around no 10, 20 years and go through
the appeals process." From crime to punishment, it was the shortest time
in Ohio’s 22 executions during the past seven years. Donald and Wilma Barton,
the condemned man’s parents, and two of his victim’s daughters, Tiffany and
Jamie Reising, witnessed the execution from a few feet away, separated by a sheet
of glass.
Following
Barton's execution, Reising said she's reaching the point where she can forgive
Barton, but not yet. She said she doesn't want to carry hate in her heart for
the rest of her life. Barton, who did not seek clemency from Gov. Bob Taft, had
asked the trial court to sentence him to death. A judge ruled last week that he
was competent to give up his appeals.
Jamie Reising, 21, who watched Barton kill her
mother, was given permission to leave the Warren County jail to witness the
execution. She is serving time on a drug charge. "This
is closure for our family," she said afterward. "He took the glue that was holding us
together."
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