Eddie Johnson was executed by the State of Texas for a triple murder
According to court documents Johnson was upset with David Magee who he believed had him fired from a previous job, Johnson would abduct David Magee, Virgina Cadena, 29, and Cadena ten year old daughter Elizabeth Galvan. The three victims would be fatally shot and left in a ditch
Johnson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Eddie Johnson would be executed by lethal injection on June 17 1997
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Eddie Johnson Case
A man who killed a couple and a child in 1987 was executed by lethal injection today at the Huntsville State Prison, the second execution in two days in Texas. The state has had 23 executions, a record number, this year.
The inmate, Eddie James Johnson, 44, was executed for the September 1987 murders of David Magee, Virginia Cadena and her 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Galvan. Their bodies were found by the police in a roadside ditch in rural area of Aransas County, north of Corpus Christi.
