Summary of Offense:
Convicted of murdering a man in North Carolina in a carjacking and a woman in Virginia, who was his former girlfriend. Sentenced to death by a jury on February 10, 1998. The Fourth Circuit reversed his death sentence on May 4, 2000. Barnette was re-sentenced to death in 2002. On October 3, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the judgment against Barnette and remanded the case back to the Fourth Circuit in light of the Court's 2005 ruling in Miller-El v. Dretke.
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