James Barnes, a death row inmate in Brevard County, is due to die by lethal injection on Thursday, putting an end to his life behind bars decades after he murdered two Space Coast women, including his wife, in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Barnes, 61, used to live just outside West Melbourne city limits and is slated to be executed at the Florida State Prison in Raiford at 6 p.m. Thursday. This would be the fifth execution in Florida in six months.

“Our family is glad the nightmare will soon be over, and maybe we’ll be able to sleep in peace,” Barnes’ older sister, Beth Catron of Grant-Valkaria, told FLORIDA TODAY last month. She declined to comment further for this story.

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According to the Florida Department of Corrections public affairs office, Barnes has declined to participate in any media interviews prior to his execution.

Investigators with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office discovered the body of Barnes’ wife, Linda, 44, a medical assistant, inside a bedroom closet at their house in the Woodland Oaks community off Eber Boulevard in unincorporated West Melbourne.

Barnes was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree.

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Barnes, who remained in prison, requested an interview in a letter to Assistant State Attorney Michael Hunt in 2005.

Barnes, at his request, explained how he entered a bedroom window in 1988 at the River Oaks Condominiums and killed Patricia “Patsy” Miller, a 41-year-old Melbourne nurse, in a jail interview videotaped weeks later by a Melbourne detective.