Texas executes 61-year-old man, for brutal murders of twin teen sisters back in 1989

A Texas man arrested for stabbing twin 16-year-old girls to death in 1989 was executed on Oct 1, Tuesday evening- after over three decades ofthe heinous crime taking place.

The 61-year-old Garcia Glenn White died at 6:56 pm (local time) after being given a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

White fatally stabbed Annette and Bernette Edwards in December 1989. The bodies of the twins were found in their Houston apartment alongside their mother’s.

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White was put to death after the US Supreme Court declined requests to intervene. He isthe sixth inmate to be executed in the US in the last 11 days.

White was the prime suspect in two additional murders besides those of the twins and their mom, for which he had not been charged. White wasborn in Houston and was known for his love for football.

He went to the twin’s house to smoke crack with her mother Bonita, as per the testimony. At one point, he fatally stabbed Bonita and when the twins came out of their rooms startled, he attacked them too. White was later connected to the deaths of a grocery store owner and another woman, according to authorities.

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"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,"Josh Reiss, chief of the Post-Conviction Writs Division with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston, said ahead of the execution, according to the Citrus County Chronicle.

White, while waiting to be executed, offered an apology to witnesses. "I would like to apologize for all the wrong I have done, and for the pain I've caused,"he said from the death chamber.

The mystery of the twins and their mother’s deaths remained unsolved for more than six years. Later, White confessed to the murders after being arrested in connection with the July 1995 death of grocery store owner Hai Vam Pham. He also confessed to killing another woman named Greta Williams, according to police.

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After White’s lawyer’s unsuccessful attempts at appealing to the US Supreme Court to intervene and stop the execution, they claimed that Texas’ top criminal appeals court refused "to accept medical evidence and strong factual backing” that showed White is intellectually disabled."

One of White's attorneys, Patrick McCann, said that the suspect spent his time behind bars "working to be a better human being."

(With inputs from agencies)