2 Put to Death for Slayings in Texas, Virginia
Self-described coldblooded and remorseless killer Aaron Christopher Foust was executed by injection Wednesday night for robbing and strangling a hospital executive.
And in Virginia, a man who killed two women during a six-day spree of hammer beatings was executed.
Foust, 26, had demanded that no appeals be filed on his behalf, clearing the way for the 10th execution this year in Texas.
“Adios, amigos,” Foust said in a final statement. “I’ll see y’all on the other side.”
A former welder and carpenter who dealt drugs on the side, Foust was a week away from entering the Army in May 1997 when he killed David Ward, 43, at Ward’s Fort Worth apartment.
In Virginia, Eric Payne, 26, was executed by injection for killing Ruth Parham, 61, and Sally Fazio, 57, in the Richmond area in June 1997, six months after he finished a six-year term for LSD possession.
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