Garcia Glenn White’s Final Words Before Texas Execution

A man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed in Texas on Tuesday.
Garcia Glenn White, 61, was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
White 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 confessed to killing five people in total in three separate attacks. His first victim was Greta Williams in 1989, and his last victim was Hai Van Pham, whom he beat to death during a robbery of his convenience store in 1995. However, prosecutors pursued charges only for the teenage girls.
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 thanked his family and friends. “Thank you for all the love and comfort, y’all have shown,” he said. “I pray for the administration, all the guards and just pray for my brothers and sisters behind these walls, that y’all continue to help each other and lift each other up in love.
“I pray for all the field ministers and life coaches, I just thank you for so many things, father; I just pray that y’all have peace on this earth. Y’all just keep coming together and again I’m sorry for all the pain I caused to anyone. I just ask you to please find comfort and [closure] in your heart.”
White then sang some verses of a hymn called “I Trust in God” before telling his loved ones to “stay strong.”
“To all my brothers and sisters incarcerated, y’all just keep pushing forward, keep loving one another,” White said. “To the administration again and to the guards, thank you for treating us like human beings. Thank you and I pray; that’s it, warden.”
White was the sixth inmate put to death in the U.S. in the past two weeks. 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.
White’s execution took place shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeals.
Update 10/2/24, 3:30 a.m.: This article has been updated with additional information.