- May 1, 2024
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Felipe Caparrós - stock.adobe.c
Attorneys for Death Row inmate Darryl Barwick on Friday appealed to the Florida Supreme Court as they try to halt his scheduled May 3 execution.
The attorneys filed a notice of appeal of rulings by a Bay County circuit judge. As is common, the notice did not provide detailed arguments.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 4 signed a death warrant for Barwick, who was sentenced to death in the March 31, 1986, murder of Rebecca Wendt.
The victim was found wrapped in a comforter in her Panama City apartment and had been stabbed 37 times, according to court documents.
Barwick, 56, would be the third inmate to be executed in less than three months. Louis Gaskin was executed Wednesday in the 1989 murders of a couple in their Flagler County home. Donald David Dillbeck was executed Feb. 23 for murdering a woman in 1990 during a carjacking in a Tallahassee mall parking lot.
