Justice Department Schedules 2 Additional Federal Executions

Washington (AP) – The Justice Department has scheduled two additional federal executions weeks after it fought off last-minute legal challenges, and successfully resumed federal executions following a 17 year pause. The executions of Christopher Andre Vialva and William Emmett LeCroy were announced on Friday. They are both scheduled to be carried out in late September. Two other executions were previously set for August. Vialva was convicted of kidnapping and killing an Iowa couple at Fort Hood, Texas in 1999. LeCroy was convicted of raping and killing 30 year old nurse in her Georgia home, and then stealing her car