Texas man faces execution for stabbing wife and drowning daughter in bathtub

“You wanted to see the monster, so he’s the monster you made me out of,” he wrote in a letter the same day as the crime. “There are 5 lives taken today, I’m the 5th.”

Green stabbed Armstead over two dozen times. He then drowned her daughter in her bathtub.

He also plotted to kill Armstead’s two sons, ages 12 and 9.

According to a police report, Armstead had dropped the boys off at a church activity around 5:30 p.m. that evening. Green left Armstead’s house, picked up the children around 9:30 p.m., and took them back to their house.

“Shortly thereafter, the suspect Green grabbed the 9-year-old and stabbed the child once in the upper body in front of the 12-year-old,” the police report said. “Suspec5t Green then forced the two children into a back bedroom where she showed them the deceased bodies of their mother and 6-year-old sister and admitted causing their deaths.”

One of the boys talked him out of killing her, saying, “We’re too small to die and we won’t tell anyone.”

The two boys then called 911 after Green left. First responders pronounced Armstead and Montgomery dead at the scene, and the children were taken to Dallas Children’s Hospital for treatment.

Green then planned to take his own life by taking large doses of Tylenol and Benadryl. When that didn’t work, he turned himself in at a Dallas police station and confessed to the murders in a videotaped statement.

Green was found guilty in 2010 and sentenced to death. He has appealed his conviction and requested a new trial, which was denied by the court

As of Tuesday afternoon, Green’s attorneys had not appealed to stay his execution. In previous appeals, his attorneys have argued that he is mentally disabled.