GARRETT, Johnny Frank
Johnny Frank Garrett
Date of Execution: 2/11/1992
County: Potter
Prior Occupation
Laborer
Prior Offenses
None
Summary
Convicted in the October 1981 murder of Sister Tadea Benz, a 76-year-old non of the St. Francis Convent in Amarillo. Sister Benz was raped, strangled, beaten, and stabbed in her second-floor room at the convent. Garrett's fingerprints were found at the convent located across the street from his home. In a statement to the police, Garrett admitted reading into the convent and said he strangled and raped the nun after she awoke and found him in her room. He was one of seven Texas death row inmates who committed capital murder at age 17. Two others, Charles Rumbaugh and Jay Kelly Pinkerton have been executed