For the sixth time in eleven days, a death sentence was carried out in the United States today. In Texas, Garcia Glenn White, 61 years-old, was executed by lethal injection for stabbing two 16 year-old girls and their mother to death in 1989.
The country last week reached 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, despite decades-long trend of declining support for capital punishment.
Citing witnesses, American media reported that White had planned to smoke crack that day and for some reason stabbed Bonita to death. When the two girls came out of their room to see what had happened, the man turned on them too.
White confessed after his arrest in 1995 in connection with the death of Hai Van Pham, a convenience store owner. Phan was killed during a robbery at his store. White later also confessed to killing another woman in 1989, Greta Williams.
White repeatedly apologized for the killings in his final words. “First, I would like to apologize for all the wrong I have done, and for the pain I’ve caused to the Edwards family,” he said from the death chamber, according to a transcript provided to Newsweek by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. “I regret, I apologize, and I pray that you can find peace, comfort and closure in your heart for the wrong I have done and the pain I have caused you, and anybody else I’ve caused pain to. I just want to apologize; I take responsibility for it.”
White’s execution took place shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeals.
See Upcoming Executions 2024–2026 and Number of executions in the United States from 2015 to 2024, by state.
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