{"id":2073,"date":"2020-09-28T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T16:33:43","slug":"double-murderer-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Double Murderer Executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government executed double-murderer Christopher Andre Vialva last Thursday.\u00a0 Jolie McCullough of the Texas Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2020\/09\/24\/federal-death-penalty-christopher-vialva\/\">reports<\/a> that Vialva was convicted of the 1999 carjacking, robbery and murder of an Iowa couple on their way home from church.\u00a0\u00a0 Because\u00a0 the murders occurred on federal land (Fort Hood) Vialva was prosecuted under federal law.\u00a0\u00a0 During the carjacking, Vialva forced the young couple into the trunk of their car, then tried to withdraw money from their bank accounts and pawn the woman&#8217;s wedding\u00a0 ring.\u00a0 Eventually, Vialva shot both victims while they lay in the trunk, killing the husband, but the wife was still alive when he and his accomplices set the car on fire. \u00a0 In his appeal for clemency Vialva did not deny his guilt, but said that he was a redeemed man.\u00a0 His execution was uneventful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government executed double-murderer Christopher Andre Vialva last Thursday.\u00a0 Jolie McCullough of the Texas Tribune reports that Vialva was convicted of the 1999 carjacking, robbery and murder of an Iowa couple on their way home from church.\u00a0\u00a0 Because\u00a0 the murders occurred on federal land (Fort Hood) Vialva was prosecuted under federal law.\u00a0\u00a0 During the carjacking, Vialva forced the young couple into the trunk of their car, then tried to withdraw money from their bank accounts and pawn the woman&#8217;s wedding\u00a0 ring.\u00a0 Eventually, Vialva shot both victims while they lay in the trunk, killing the husband, but the wife was still alive when he and his accomplices set the car on fire. \u00a0 In his appeal for clemency Vialva did not deny his guilt, but said that he was a redeemed man.\u00a0 His execution was uneventful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Double Murderer Executed - Crime &amp; 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