A man who killed his two young daughters at his Dallas apartment in 2001 while the girls’ mother listened on the phone and heard the fatal gunshots and her children’s screams, was executed in Texas on Thursday, prisons officials said.
John Battaglia, 62, a former accountant was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville after the execution was delayed for several hours for federal courts to consider last-minute appeals to spare his life. His execution was the third this year in the United States, all of them in Texas.
