Star Texas football player turned serial killer fights execution

A star football player turned serial killer named Garcia Glen White is scheduled to be executed in Texas this week for the murders of 16-year-old identical twin sisters. This is the country's sixth execution in ten days.

But White's lawyers argue that his mental deficits – coupled with persistent use of crack cocaine – are more to blame than White, who was described by those who knew him as a gentle giant whose life was lost due to football injuries His job and the resulting accident led him to become addicted to drugs.

“Glen was the nicest person I knew,” a friend named Ray Manuel wrote about White, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY. “Glen cried easily,” his younger sister Monica Garrett wrote. And his older brother Alfred White Jr. said: “He was the biggest wimp you could ever find.”