Christopher Swift, 31, was executed...

Christopher Swift, 31, was executed, spurning appeals that could stop or delay his execution for the April 29, 2003slayings of his pregnant wife, Amy Sabeh-Swift, and his wife's mother, Sandra Stevens Sabeh, 61.
He was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m..
"Receiving the death penalty is what he's wanted from Day 1, from the first day I met him," said Derek Adame, who was one of Swift's trial lawyers.
Swift spent about 21 months on death row. The average condemned Texas inmate is in prison about 10 years before execution. The shortest time on death row was Joe Gonzales, who in 1996 received lethal injection 252 days after he arrived.
Swift becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, and the 382nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Swift becomes the 143rd condemned inmate to be put to death in Texas since Rick Perry became governor in 2001. A record 152 condemned inmates were executed during the tenure of then-Governor George W. Bush.
Swift becomes the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA, and the 1061st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.