David Holland was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents David Holland would rob the Jefferson Saving and Loan and in the process of the armed robbery would murder Helen Barnard, 29, the office manager, and Dianna Jackson, 23, a teller
David Holland would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
David Holland would be executed by lethal injection on August 12 1993
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David Holland Case
A man convicted of killing a bank manager during a robbery in 1985 was put to death early today by lethal injection, becoming the 10th person to be executed in Texas this year.
His appeal to the state’s highest criminal court was denied on Tuesday, officials said.
The condemned man, David Lee Holland, 58, was pronounced dead at 12:16 A.M., central daylight time, about four minutes after officials began injecting the lethal chemicals into his arms.
Mr. Holland was the second man to be put to death here in the last seven days, and was the 64th person to be executed since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982.
Mr. Holland was sentenced to be executed for the July 1985 robbery and murder of the manager of a savings and loan office in Port Arthur. He did not have a last statement, a prison spokesman, Charles Brown, said.
Mr. Holland, a security officer for eight years at a bank branch, was convicted of killing Helen Barnard, 29, the office manager, during the robbery. Ms. Barnard and a teller, Dianna Jackson, 23, were herded into the bank’s vault and shot with a .45-caliber pistol. About $8,000 was taken in the robbery.
He was convicted in the slaying of Ms. Barnard and was also charged with the Jackson killing but was never tried. He was identified by a videotape of the robbery.
