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Dallas man executed for murder of two daughters while mother listened

John Battaglia, a former Dallas accountant, was executed Thursday for the 2001 murders of his two daughters. Battaglia smiled as the mother of his slain children, Mary Jean Pearle, and other witnesses to his lethal injection walked into the death chamber viewing area. CBS Dallas' Maryann Martinez reports.
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