A Texas man is executed for fatally stabbing twin teenage girls in 1989

Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been executed for fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago. Garcia Glenn White repeatedly apologized for his crimes before receiving a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 61-year-old was condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette and Bernette Edwards. The bodies of the twin girls and their mother were found in their Houston apartment. White’s execution took place shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected three last-ditch appeals. White’s lawyers had unsuccessfully argued he was intellectually disabled and was prevented from presenting evidence that could have spared his life. The execution was the sixth in the U.S. in the last 11 days.