Gary Green, a 51-year-old American, was executed in Texas for a double murder: here are his last words to the family of his victims

The U.S. state of Texas on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing his wife and her daughter in 2009.

 

Gary Green, 51, was pronounced dead at 7:07 p.m. local time from Huntsville Penitentiary in this large, conservative southern state.

 

He was sentenced to death in 2010 for stabbing his wife and drowning her six-year-old daughter in a bathtub a year earlier in Dallas.

 

The morning of the tragedy, his wife had sent him a letter of rupture. He had answered that “five lives would be lost”, recalls the local press.

 

In the end, he did not kill his wife’s two sons, aged 9 and 12, but tried to end his life by swallowing a large dose of drugs.

 

 

I apologize for all the pain I have caused you and your family,” Green said as he looked at his victims’ loved ones before he was executed. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I let you down. »

  

He said he took “two people we all loved, and I had to go through that while I was here” before continuing, “We were all one and I broke that bond. I’m asking you to forgive me, not for me but for you. I’m about to go home and you all are going to be here. I want to make sure you don’t get hurt. »

  

Gary Green was also one of the convicts who went to court to prevent Texas from executing him with lethal substances that might be past their expiration date.

  

Despite a decision in their favor by a trial judge, three of the plaintiffs have already been executed since the beginning of the year.

  

Another execution, that of Arthur Brown for a quadruple murder he denies committing, is scheduled for Thursday in Texas.