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James Phillip Barnes, a Florida death row inmate slated to die by execution Thursday for the brutal 1988 killing of a nurse he beat with a hammer, forwent the customary last meal, state corrections officials said. 

The Florida Department of Corrections told Fox News Digital that Barnes declined to request the meal. State law allows inmates to request a last meal, which must be purchased locally and costs no more than $40. 

Barnes, 61, will die by lethal injection at