Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette murdered two people: His ex-girlfriend in a horrific act of domestic violence in front of her mother, and a motorist whom he shot to death in a drainage ditch after ordering him out of his car.
The victims were Robin Williams and Donald Lee Allen.
President Joe Biden just saved his life by commuting his death sentence to life in prison.
That’s according to court records.
A December 23 statement from the White House announced that Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row. Those individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole. One of those 37 is Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette.
We are profiling each of the 37 because the American public has a right to know what they did and who their victims were.
Commutation #3: Aquilia Barnette
The victims: Donald Lee Allen and Robin Williams
The killer: Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette
What he did:
“The government indicted and tried Barnette on 11 counts stemming from the murders of Donald Lee Allen and Robin Williams,” court records say.
The court records say that Williams and Barnette were dating, but then she broke up with him in 1996. He smashed the windows of her friend’s car with a baseball bat, cut telephone wires, threw a fire bomb into her apartment, and then fired shots at her friend.
After this incident, Barnette purchased a shotgun and then approached Allen’s car as he was stopped at an intersection. He ordered him to get out of the car and then shot him three times in the back in a drainage ditch. He then went to Williams’ house and cut the telephone lines. Williams was inside holding her eight-month-old granddaughter.
Williams fled but Barnette chased her, grabbed her by her hair, and dragged her back to her mother’s house. He shot her twice, killing her.
“Miss Williams fell down as she was running away from Barnette, and he caught up with her, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her back to her mother’s house,” the court records say. “He told Miss Williams that he planned on killing her and himself.   Mrs. Williams came out of the house as they returned, and Miss Williams broke free from Barnette and went with her mother toward the house. Barnette then shot Miss Williams twice. He fired the first shot from 10 to 12 feet away, hitting Miss Williams in the side. The second shot, fired from four to five feet away, hit her in the back. When Barnette fired both shots, Mrs. Williams was close enough to her daughter to touch her. Miss Williams died from these injuries.”
“Barnette later confessed to the two murders and the carjacking,” court records say.
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