U.S. executes Texas man, 40, who murdered two youth ministers

A former Texas man convicted of murdering two youth ministers when he was 19 was executed Thursday, the seventh federal inmate and the first Black man put to death since Attorney General William Barr announced the resumption of federal executions last year.

The inmate, Christopher Andre Vialva, 40, had been convicted in 2000 of carjacking and murdering the couple, Todd and Stacie Bagley, who were visiting Texas from Iowa and had just attended Sunday services, the Justice Department said.

Vialva was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., according to the Bureau of Prisons.