Killer says 'I'm ready, Father' as he becomes first black inmate to be executed this year
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mirror.co.ukA former gang member who murdered two married Christian youth ministers at an army base when he was a teenager has been executed after 21 years.
Convicted killer Christopher Vialva became the first black man to suffer the federal death penalty since the punishment resumed this summer after a 17-year hiatus.
The death row inmate was just 19 when he and fellow gang members in Killeen, Texas, killed Todd and Stacie Bagley, a white couple from Iowa, at Fort Hood in 1999.
In a last statement, Vialva, aged 40, asked God to comfort the families of the couple he had killed, saying, "Father...heal their hearts with grace and love." His final words were: "I'm ready, Father." He was pronounced dead at 6.46pm on Thursday after US Department of Justice
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