Texas Executes Man for Killing 2

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A man was executed Tuesday for killing his pregnant wife and mother-in-law four years ago.

Christopher Swift, who spurned appeals that could stop or delay his execution, made no final statement.

"Receiving the death penalty is what he's wanted from Day 1, from the first day I met him," said Derek Adame, one of Swift's trial lawyers.

Swift was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m., seven minutes after the dose of drugs began, in front of five friends. No relatives of survivors attended the execution.

Evidence showed Swift's 5-year-old son watched as the former laborer and parolee stabbed and strangled his 27-year-old wife, Amy Sabeh-Swift, in …