Oct. 1 (UPI) — Former Houston resident Garcia Glen White died by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Huntsville, Texas, for the 1989 murders of twin teenage sisters after killing their mother in 1989.
White’s attorneys unsuccessfully tried to spare White from the death penalty by arguing he suffered from mental issues made worse by extensive use of crack cocaine.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied White’s legal appeals to remove the death penalty and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene.
The appellate court ruled White’s appeals lacked merit and were filed too late to prevent the death sentence imposed 28 years ago after White was found guilty of the deaths of 16-year-old twins Annette and Bernette Edwards…