Texas inmate executed for fatally stabbing twin teenage girls 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 6:56 p.m.following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.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, rejected three last-ditch appeals.Asked by a warden if he had any statement, White repeatedly apologized in his final words to witnesses looking on.“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, shortly before the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began flowing into his arms.He said he took responsibility for the slayings, regretted his actions and was praying for prison officials, officers and “for my brothers and sisters behind these walls.”In a loud and strong voice he began singing a hymn, “I Trust in God,” singing several verses with the refrain: “I trust in God, my savior of the world, the one who never failed.”Then he urged family and friends to to “just keep pushing forward, keep loving one another,” and ended by thanking prison officials and officers “for treating us like human beings.”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.Testimony showed that White went to the girls’ Houston home to smoke crack with their mother, Bonita, who also was 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.Author...