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Garcia Glenn White also killed mother of twin 16-year-olds in 1989
A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more
than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening. Garcia Glenn
White was pronounced dead at 6:56pm CDT following a chemical injection
at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, the AP reports. He was
condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette and Bernette
Edwards. The bodies of the twin girls and their mother, Bonita Edwards,
were found in their Houston apartment. White, 61, was the sixth inmate
put to death in the US in the last 11 days. His execution took place
shortly after the US. Supreme Court, without comment, declined requests
to intervene.
Testimony showed that White, a former college football player who later
worked as a fry cook, went to the girls' Houston home to smoke crack
with their mother, Bonita, who was also fatally stabbed. When the girls
came out of their room to see what happened, White attacked them.
Evidence showed White broke down the locked door of the girls' bedroom. Authorities said he was later tied to the deaths of a grocery store
owner and another woman.
"Garcia Glenn White committed five murders in three different
transactions and two of his victims were teenage girls. This is the
type of case that the death penalty was intended for," said Josh Reiss,
chief of the Post-Conviction Writs Division with the Harris County
District Attorney's Office in Houston, in comments ahead of the
execution.
White's lawyers unsuccessfully appealed to the US Supreme Court to stop
the execution after lower courts rejected petitions for a stay. The
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Friday denied White's request to
commute his death sentence to a lesser penalty or to grant him a 30-day reprieve. His lawyers argued that Texas' top criminal appeals court has
refused "to accept medical evidence and strong factual backing" showing
White is intellectually disabled.
The deaths of the twin girls and their mother went unsolved for about
six years until White confessed to the killings after he was arrested
in connection with the July 1995 death of grocery store owner Hai Van
Pham, who was fatally beaten during a robbery at his business. Police
said White also confessed to fatally beating another woman, Greta
Williams, in 1989.
https://www.newser.com/story/357180/texas-executes-man-who-fatally- stabbed-teen-twins.html
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