USA - Texas. Rogelio Cannady was executed

Rogelio Cannady was executed for killing his cellmate while already serving 2 life sentences for a double murder. Cannady, 37, hispanic, didn't deny fatally beating 55-year-old Leovigildo Bonal on October 10, 1993, but he insisted the attack at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice McConnell Unit in Beeville was self defense from Bonal's sexual advances. Cannady was sentenced to 2 life sentences after pleading guilty to the 1990 murders of 16-year-old Ricardo Garcia and 13-year-old Ana Robles, both runaways from a youth home. Garcia was stabbed 13 times. Robles was raped and strangled. Cannady was 17 at the time of those killings. Cannady becomes the 10th condemned inmate put to death this year in Texas and the 457th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Cannady becomes the 19th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1207th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.