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USA - Texas. Garcia White, 61, Black, was executed on October 2
October 2, 2024: OCTOBER 2, 2024 - Texas. Garcia White, 61, Black, was executed on October 2
Sentenced for fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls in 1989
White confessed to murdering five people in a six-year period but prosecutors only pursued charges for the killings of Annette and Bernette Edwards.
White was pronounced dead at 6.56pm CDT following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He had been 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.
While awaiting execution, White issued an apology 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 chemicals began flowing.
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 had 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.
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.
White became the fifth man executed in Texas this year, the 591st overall since Texas resumed capital punishment in 1982. White is the 19th this year in the U.S., and No. 1601 since the U.S. resumed executions in 1977
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/texas-execution-garcia-glenn-white
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/01/garcia-glenn-white-execution-texas/75473668007/ (Source: The Guardian, 02/10/2024)
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