The sister of a Texas woman beaten to death by a former college football star said she wants to see him pay his "debt" when he is executed later this week.
Although Garcia Glen White, 61, was only convicted in the 1989 triple stabbing murders of 16-year-old twin sisters, Annette and Bernette Edwards, and their mom, Bonita Edwards, he also confessed to fatally beating 27-year-old Greta Williams that same year.
"My sister won't be truly free until he's executed, until he pays his debt," Greta's sister, Dewanta Washington, told USA TODAY, ahead of White's Tuesday execution.
Greta had just moved to Houston from Chicago, in search of a new beginning, when she was killed.
Months later, White went on to murder the Edwards family at their Houston apartment.
White told investigators he and Bonita were doing crack together when they got into an altercation, leading to the subsequent murders of the three female family members.
"She reached for a knife, and I took the knife and stabbed her," White said, according to court records, the outlet reported. "Some kids come out. I went into the bedroom after them... I stabbed one in the bedroom and one in the living room."
There was also DNA evidence Bernette had been sexually assaulted.
"Five people murdered, in three separate transactions, including two teenage girls, is simply too much carnage to ignore and is the type of case for which the death penalty is appropriate," Harris County prosecutor Josh Reiss said, according to the outlet.
Before White went on to become a convicted murderer, he was a star football player at Lubbock Christian College, until an injury put an end to his time on the field.
He dropped out of college and fathered three children with his then-girlfriend, when another injury – this time, work-related – led White to seek solace in drugs.
"He didn't have any structure in his life," friend Howard Gordon said, according to the paper. "I could see him changing, and when I saw the guys he was hanging out with, I knew that no good would come of it."
"Until he got hooked on the drugs, there was nothing in him that would have ever done this," he added.
White's defense attorneys previously fought and won a stay of execution in 2015, blaming the killings on his habitual drug use and the damage it caused to his brain.
Recent appeal efforts were unsuccessful and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to hold a clemency hearing, paving the way for White's execution.
