How could it take so long to execute this man?

Robert · Mar 30, 2016

This is a clear case where the wheels of justice rolled far too slowly.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/30/dad-who-murdered-his-kids/82412936/

DALLAS Liberty wanted to be a ballerina.

Faith was smart and made people laugh.

On May 2, 2001, the little girls ages 6 and 9 were visiting their father, John Battaglia, in his apartment near downtown Dallas when the unthinkable happened.

"He tried to kill the children!"

Those are the chilling words from a 911 recording on the night that Liberty and Faith were murdered.

The little girls were on the phone talking to Mary Jean Pearle, their mother, when Battaglia shot them.

Pearle described the horror when Battaglia went on trial for murder one year later.

"And then I hear Faith go, 'No, daddy! Please don't do it!' And I heard [gunfire], and I hear him yell: 'Merry F---ing Christmas!'"

Evidence showed that Battagalia, an accountant, shot each of his daughters six times.

Pearle rushed to the apartment and paced while police entered. They told her the little girls were dead.

In court, Mary Jean Pearle recounted the horror of
In court, Mary Jean Pearle recounted the horror of hearing her daughters being shot and killed by her estranged husband.
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