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Gary Green was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for the murders of his wife and her daughter. According to court documents Gary Green would fatally stab Lovetta Armstead before drowning her six year old daughter Jazzmen Montgomery. Gary Green would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Gary Green is scheduled to be executed on March 7 2023
Gary Green 2023 Information
| Name | Green, Gary | |
| TDCJ Number | 999561 | |
| Date of Birth | 03/14/1971 | |
| Date Received | 11/22/2010 | |
| Age (when Received) | 39 | |
| Education Level (Highest Grade Completed) | ||
| Date of Offense | 09/22/2009 | |
| Age (at the time of Offense) | 37 | |
| County | Dallas | |
| Race | Black | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Height (in Feet and Inches) | 6′ 3″ | |
| Weight (in Pounds) | 365 | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Native County | ||
| Native State |
Gary Green More News
Two brothers tearfully recounted for a Dallas County jury Tuesday how their stepfather forced them to look at the dead bodies of their slain mother and little sister.
The boys’ emotional testimony came in the capital murder trial of Gary Green, 39, where they also told jurors that they persuaded their mother’s husband not to kill them, too. Green is accused of killing Lovetta Armstead and her 6-year-old daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their south Oak Cliff home in September 2009.
As they see their mother lying on the floor, “we just fall on our knees and start crying,” the older boy, now 13, told jurors.
Armstead was killed shortly after informing Green that she wanted to annul their marriage just months after the wedding, according to police. Green had moved out, but he persuaded Armstead to let him spend the day at the house.
If convicted, Gary Green would face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
The attack on Armstead was so violent, said prosecutors Andy Beach, Heath Harris, Josh Healy and Jennifer Bennett, that one knife broke and Green grabbed another.
Armstead also grabbed a knife and stabbed Green twice behind his shoulder.
But her stab wounds were too much and she died “a slow, painful, agonizing death,” Beach said.
Gary Green then grabbed the girl and drowned her in the bathtub, prosecutors said. He would later tell police that “it was so bad, I had to turn away.”
He showered in the same tub and went to pick his stepsons up from church. When they got home, he held the brothers at knifepoint and stabbed the youngest one in the abdomen.
Somehow, Beach said, the boys did what their mother could not and persuaded Green not to kill them. The youngest brother did all the talking. His older brother testified that he was too scared.
“We’re too little to die,” the younger brother, now 10, testified he told Green. “We won’t tell anybody about it.”
They also told Gary Green that they loved him.
After Green told the boys he would spare their lives, he told them he had something to show them. He took them into the bedroom and showed them their dead mother.
“I killed your mom because I loved her to death,” Beach said Green told the boys.
They then saw the body of their sister face down on the bloody floor of the bathroom. Her hands were bound behind her back with duct tape.
The older boy said Green ordered him to retrieve his pills, forcing him to walk through the blood that covered the bathroom floor.
Green then left, he said, after making the boys hug him and promise not to call the police until he was gone.
The boys testified Green told them he was going to kill himself.
“You know how I told you to say, ‘See you later’ and never ‘Bye?’ ” the older quoted Green as saying.
“Well, this is goodbye.”
Bursting into tears
The younger brother was seated at the witness stand during a break and smiled while talking to attorneys. But he burst into tears when Green entered the courtroom from a jail cell.
When prosecutors couldn’t calm him, he was ushered from the courtroom. The boy returned minutes later, armed with pockets full of candy.
As the younger boy testified, he glanced constantly at Green, who sat quietly and stared ahead throughout the day’s testimony. The boy said he once cared for Green, telling jurors, “I loved him to death.”
‘5 lives taken today’
Earlier Tuesday, prosecutors introduced three letters that the couple exchanged on the day of the murders.
In the first message, written on notebook paper, Armstead asked Green to move out of their home: “I know you love me and I love you but it’s time we part.”
In the second, she voiced regrets at allowing Green back into her life.
In the final letter, Green said he planned to kill Armstead, her three children and himself. The letter showed to jurors was typed. The original was covered in blood and found on Armstead’s bed.
“You asked to see the monster so here is the monster you made me!” he wrote. There “will be 5 lives taken today me being the 5th!”
At one point in his final letter to Armstead, Green reflected on his fate.
“I pray that the Lord allows my soul to enter Heaven,” he wrote. “If not I will burn in Hell forever.”
In brief opening remarks, Green’s defense attorneys, Paul Johnson, Kobby Warren and Brady Wyatt asked jurors not to make up their minds until they hear all the evidence.
Testimony is expected to resume today.
Gary Green Execution
A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday.
Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their Dallas home. Green’s attorneys did not file any appeals seeking to stop the execution.
A Buddhist spiritual adviser chosen by Green stood beside the death chamber gurney at the inmate’s feet and said a brief prayer. Green then apologized profusely when asked by the warden if he had a final statement.
“I apologize for all the harm I have caused you and your family,” Green said, looking at relatives of his victims who watched through a window. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I failed you.”
He said he took “two people that we all loved, and I had to live with that while I was here
Texas executes man convicted of killing his estranged wife and her daughter
March 7, 2023 / 10:03 PM / AP
A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday.
Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their Dallas home. Green’s attorneys did not file any appeals seeking to stop the execution.
A Buddhist spiritual adviser chosen by Green stood beside the death chamber gurney at the inmate’s feet and said a brief prayer. Green then apologized profusely when asked by the warden if he had a final statement.
“I apologize for all the harm I have caused you and your family,” Green said, looking at relatives of his victims who watched through a window. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I failed you.”
He said he took “two people that we all loved, and I had to live with that while I was here.”
“We were all one and I broke that bond,” he continued. “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.”
Instead of inserting the IV needles in each arm, prison technicians had to use a vein in Green’s right arm and a vein on the top of his left hand, delaying the injection briefly.
As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began, Green was thanking prison administrators, chaplains and “all the beautiful human beings at the Polunsky Unit,” the prison that houses Texas’ condemned men. Then he took several quick breaths, which evolved into snores. After nine snores, all movement ceased. Several of the victims’ relatives hugged and cried.
He was pronounced dead 33 minutes later, at 7:07 p.m.
Ray Montgomery, Jazzmen’s father and one of the witnesses, said recently that he wasn’t cheering for Green’s execution but saw it as the justice system at work.
“It’s justice for the way my daughter was tortured. It’s justice for the way that Lovetta was murdered,” said Montgomery, 43. He and other witnesses did not speak with reporters afterward.
In prior appeals, Green’s attorneys had claimed he was intellectually disabled and had a lifelong history of psychiatric disorders. Those appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court and lower appeals courts.
The high court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled, but not for people with serious mental illness.
Authorities said Green committed the killings after Armstead sought to annul their marriage. On the day of the killings, Armstead had written two letters to Green, telling him that although she loved him, she had “to do what’s best for me.” In his own letter, which was angry and rambling, Green expressed the belief Armstead and her children were involved in a plot against him.
“You asked to see the monster so here he is the monster you made me. … They will be 5 lives taken today me being the 5th,” Green wrote.
Armstead was stabbed more than two dozen times, and Green drowned Jazzmen in the home’s bathtub.
Authorities said Green also intended to kill Armstead’s two other children, then 9-year-old Jerrett and 12-year-old Jerome. Green stabbed Jerrett but both boys survived.
“We won’t tell anybody about it,” Jerrett told jurors in testimony about how he convinced Green to spare their lives.
Josh Healy, one of the prosecutors with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office that convicted Green, said the boys were incredibly brave.
Green “was an evil guy. It was one of the worst cases I’ve ever been a part of,” said Healy, now a defense attorney in Dallas.
Montgomery said he still has a close relationship with Armstead’s two sons. He said both lead productive lives and Jerome Armstead has a daughter who looks like Jazzmen.
“They still suffer a lot, I think,” said Montgomery, who is a special education English teacher.
Green’s execution was the first of two scheduled in Texas this week. Inmate Arthur Brown Jr. is set to be executed Thursday.
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