A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening.
In this photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Garcia White. White, who is linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution.
White, 61, was the sixth inmate put to death in the U.S. in the last 11 days. His execution took place after the U.S. Supreme Court, without comment, declined requests to intervene.“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.
White’s lawyers had unsuccessfully appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution after lower courts previously 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.
White’s lawyers also accused the Texas appeals court of not allowing his defense team to present evidence that could spare him a death sentence, including DNA evidence that another man also was at the crime scene and scientific evidence that would show White was “likely suffering from a cocaine induced psychotic break during his actions.”
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