Monday, January 14, 2013

CHRISTIAN VICTIMS’ FAMILIES FORGAVE SAMUEL CLARK GALLAMORE FOR MURDER (EXECUTED IN TEXAS ON 14 JANUARY 2003)




            Ten years ago on this date (14 January 2003), Samuel Clark Gallamore was executed by lethal injection in Texas.



Samuel Clark Gallamore
Summary:  In 1992 Gallamore and accomplice James John Steiner drove to the residence of Verle Clayton Kenney, his wife Julianna Kenney, and their daughter Adrienne Arnot, for the purpose of robbing them. Steiner had previously cared for Mrs. Kenney at a nursing home and hid while Gallamore went to the door. 44 year old Arnot answered and both men rushed inside. They immediately began beating her and her 83 year old father with a tire iron and tree branch. They got a knife from the kitchen and Gallamore stabbed Arnot in the neck. In all, Arnot suffered 12 blunt force blows to her head and face, and 14 blunt force blows to her upper extremities. Gallamore discovered Mrs. Kenney, partially paralyzed, immobile in a chair, and unable to defend herself. Gallamore, wielding the kitchen knife, stabbed Mrs. Kenney in the neck and beat her so powerfully that it caused a gaping hole in her skull measuring 7 inches long by 2 inches wide. All three victims died. Two taped confessions by Gallamore detailing the crime were admitted at trial. Gallamore claimed that he and Steiner were on a 2 week speed binge at the time. Steiner was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.




Samuel Clark Gallamore


QUOTE: Kristin Huffman, Arnot's cousin and Julianna Kenney's niece, witnessed the execution and said her family had indeed forgiven Gallamore. "We all believe Jesus died for us and died for him," she said after the execution. "We forgave him. He's been reconciled with God now, and you can't ask for any more than that."

AUTHOR: Family members of the victims of Samuel Clark Gallamore. He murdered them on 29 March 1992. Samuel Clark Gallamore was executed by lethal injection in Texas on 14 January 2003.

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