The Nation : Louisiana Executes Slayer

David Dene Martin, a former church youth counselor who killed his wife’s lover and three other persons, was executed in Louisiana’s electric chair at the prison in Angola. Martin, 32, was electrocuted for gunning down two men and two women in 1977, including a night club owner who had had an affair with the condemned man’s wife. In a plea for a reprieve before the Louisiana Pardon Board, he blamed the shootings on use of the drug PCP and personal tragedies.