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Gerald Albert Gallego

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Gerald Albert Gallego

Birth
Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA
Death
3 Mar 1955 (aged 26)
Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Executed in the gas chamber in the Mississippi State Prison for Murder Of two police officers.Gerald Armond Gallego was preceded in death by his father, the senior Gerald Gallego, who was put to death in Mississippi's gas chamber in 1955 after killing a town marshal in Ocean Springs, Miss. After arriving in prison, and before he was executed, the elder Gallego hurled cleaning acid into the eyes of a jailer and then beat him to death with a pipe.

Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Revenge
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders: 1954
Date of arrest: September 14, 1954
Date of birth: 1929
Victims profile: Marshall Ernest F. "Red" Beaugez and Jailer J. C. Landrum
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Jackson County, Mississippi, USA
Status: Executed by asphyxiation-gas in Mississippi on March 3, 1955

When he was paroled he fled California, eventually landing in Mississippi where he, in two separate incidents, killed two police officers. In 1955, Gerald Albert Gallego received the dubious distinction of being the first man executed in Mississippi’s new gas chamber.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

MO: Cop-hating father of GERALD ARMAND GALLEGO; murdered lawmen out of spite for a previous beating by police.

DISPOSITION: Executed Mar. 3, 1955.

SOURCES:
Murderpedia.com
CHARLENE 3/B/24OCT97/MN/MJM- on Dec. 13, 1982
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sex-slave-killer-dies-of-cancer-in-Nevada-2793643.php
Executed in the gas chamber in the Mississippi State Prison for Murder Of two police officers.Gerald Armond Gallego was preceded in death by his father, the senior Gerald Gallego, who was put to death in Mississippi's gas chamber in 1955 after killing a town marshal in Ocean Springs, Miss. After arriving in prison, and before he was executed, the elder Gallego hurled cleaning acid into the eyes of a jailer and then beat him to death with a pipe.

Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Revenge
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders: 1954
Date of arrest: September 14, 1954
Date of birth: 1929
Victims profile: Marshall Ernest F. "Red" Beaugez and Jailer J. C. Landrum
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Jackson County, Mississippi, USA
Status: Executed by asphyxiation-gas in Mississippi on March 3, 1955

When he was paroled he fled California, eventually landing in Mississippi where he, in two separate incidents, killed two police officers. In 1955, Gerald Albert Gallego received the dubious distinction of being the first man executed in Mississippi’s new gas chamber.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

MO: Cop-hating father of GERALD ARMAND GALLEGO; murdered lawmen out of spite for a previous beating by police.

DISPOSITION: Executed Mar. 3, 1955.

SOURCES:
Murderpedia.com
CHARLENE 3/B/24OCT97/MN/MJM- on Dec. 13, 1982
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sex-slave-killer-dies-of-cancer-in-Nevada-2793643.php


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