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   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   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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