HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A South Dakota parolee condemned for killing an Army officer during a robbery and beating in Texas has been executed.Billy Galloway's lethal injection Thursday evening comes a day after his former cellmate was put to death for the same crime.
Galloway (left) had a long, violent history culminating in the slaying of 37-year-old David Logie in September 1998. The Army major from Fayetteville, N.C. was bludgeoned with a hammer and a tree limb behind a building in Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.
It was one of two slayings blamed on Galloway and Kevin Varga during a cross-country rampage of crime.
The 41-year-old Varga was executed Wednesday evening. Twenty-four hours later, the 41-year-old Galloway became the ninth prisoner executed this year in the nation's most active death penalty state.
Galloway becomes the 18th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1206th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
Source: AP, May 13, 2010
Galloway becomes the 18th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1206th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
Source: AP, May 13, 2010
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