James Briddle was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents James Briddle and two female accomplices would break into a home where they would murder Robert Banks, 30, and Bob Skeens, 26. The home would be robbed before the trio fled
One of the female accomplices Pamela Perillo was initially sentenced to death however would later be resentenced
James Briddle would be convicted and sentenced to death
James Briddle would be executed by lethal injection on December 12 1995
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James Briddle Case
A member of a fearsome prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood was executed by injection today for his part in a 1980 robbery in which two men were killed.
The man, James Michael Briddle, 40, was strapped to the death-chamber gurney about an hour after the United States Supreme Court rejected a final appeal.
I love you,” he told two brothers standing in the death chamber.
Mr. Briddle was convicted of killing Robert Banks, one of two men found strangled in Mr. Banks’s home in Houston. A companion of Mr. Briddle, Pamela Perillo, was convicted of killing the other man, Bob Skeens, and was sentenced to death. Mr. Briddle’s wife, Linda, was found guilty of robbery and placed on five years’ probation.
Mr. Briddle had served time in prison in California for theft and forgery. It was there that he apparently joined the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison gang born in California in the 1960’s. Members wear a tattoo of a swastika and lightning bolt
In 1984, Mr. Briddle and another condemned killer were implicated in a death row firebombing in which a black inmate was seriously hurt in his cell
