A Texas man has been executed for fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago. Garcia Glenn White repeatedly apologized for his crimes before receiving a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 61-year-old was condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette and Bernette Edwards.
In this photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Garcia White. White, who is linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution. In this photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Garcia White.
As the drugs began taking effect, he exhaled softly several times then began sounds like snores, several of them loud. He burped, snored quietly once and gulped. Seventeen minutes later he was pronounced dead. His lawyers argued that Texas’ top criminal appeals court has refused “to accept medical evidence and strong factual backing” showing White is intellectually disabled.
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