There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as "a joke" — after paying thousands for it at auction, the man said Tuesday.

The guitar supposedly signed by Taylor Swift that was sold for $4,000 to a Texas man who immediately smashed it with a hammer wasn’t authentic, a source close to Swift’s merch company told HuffPost on Tuesday.

A North Texas man is going viral for purchasing a signed Taylor Swift guitar for about $4,000 and immediately smashing it with a hammer.

Texas is set to execute Garcia Glenn White for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters on Tuesday, which would make him the sixth inmate put to death in the U.S. in an 11-day period and the fifth execution in the state so far this year.

A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening. Garcia White was condemned for the December 1989 killings of Annette and Bernette Edwards.

Garcia Glenn White apologized for the pain he had caused and said he hoped his victims' families could now find peace in his final words before his execution.

Texas State's talks with the Mountain West Conference have stalled, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Tuesday, and the school informed the Sun Belt Conference that it won't be leaving after the Bobcats program received a verbal offer over the weekend.

The Mountain West Conference is reportedly set to make Conference USA's UTEP a full-time member across all athletics. Brett McMurphy of the Action

White, 61, was administered a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville on Tuesday. He died at 6:56 p.m., making him the fifth person to be executed in Texas this year. The state intends to execute one more inmate,

On Tuesday, Texas is set to execute Garcia Glen White for the 1989 murders of teenage twin girls. But White says he doesn't deserve to die.

Two of Garcia Glenn White's victims were identical twin sisters who had just celebrated their sweet 16th birthdays the day before they were killed. Another victim was a hard-working dad with big dreams who had just moved his family to the U.