Texas man executed for stabbing wife to death and drowning her daughter
Luke Gentile
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A Texas man convicted of stabbing his estranged wife to death and drowning her young daughter was executed Tuesday by lethal injection.
Gary Green was declared dead at 7:07 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville after he was given a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital, according to a report.
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The injection was delayed for a brief period because prison technicians had to use a vein at the top of Green’s left hand and one in his right arm instead of just using IVs in each arm, the report noted.
Green, 51, was sentenced to death for the 2009 slayings of 32-year-old Lovetta Armstead and her 6-year-old daughter Jazzmen Montgomery.
Green killed the pair in their Dallas home, stabbing Armstead to death and drowning Montgomery in a bathtub, according to the report.
The murders of Armstead and her daughter occurred after she had attempted to annul her marriage with Green, and on the day of her death, Armstead wrote two letters to Green.
She told him she loved him and that she was trying to “do what’s best for me.”
Green wrote a letter of his own detailing his belief that his wife and her children were plotting against him, the report noted.
“You asked to see the monster so here he is the monster you made me,” he wrote. “They will be 5 lives taken today me being the 5th.”
Along with killing Armstead and Montgomery, authorities said Green stabbed Armstead’s two sons, who survived.
At his execution, Green was joined by a Buddhist spiritual adviser.
A short prayer was offered, and Green gave an apology as his final statement.
“I apologize for all the harm I have caused you and your family,” Green said as relatives of his victims looked on. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I failed you.”
He had taken people they all loved, he said.
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“We were all one, and I broke that bond,” Green said. “I ask that you forgive me, not for me but for y’all. I’m fixing to go home, and y’all are going to be here. I want to make sure you don’t suffer. You have to forgive me and heal and move on. … I’m not the man I used to be.”
Green had previously been rejected on appeals that he was intellectually disabled and suffering from mental health disorders, but prior to his death, there were no reported appeals made by his lawyers to stop his execution.