Posted on 01/04/2005 6:14:03 PM PST by SmithL
HUNTSVILLE -- A condemned killer was executed Tuesday night for the fatal prison beating of a convicted child molester.
James Porter, who dropped his appeals and ordered nothing be done to stop the first execution of the year in the nation's most active capital punishment state, apologized to relatives of his victims and expressed love for his family.
"I am sorry for the pain I have caused you," he said in a brief final statement. "I know it is a great loss and I want to apologize. I am sorry. And to my family I love you and I will see you all in heaven."
His mother sobbed while watching the lethal injection through a window nearby.
Porter, 33, was sentenced to die for using a smuggled rock wrapped in a pillowcase to fatally beat prisoner Rudy Delgado, 40.
Porter already was serving a 45-year term for the 1995 shooting death of a transient when he attacked Delgado in May 2000 at a prison near Texarkana. Delgado was serving a 15-year term for sexually assaulting a child.
"I believe he was taken out too easy," Anna Acevedo said after watching her brother's killer die. "He didn't feel the same pain my brother did."
Porter said Delgado made a pass at him.
"What I done is what I done,"
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"Delgado got his justice, too."
And rightly so.
Heck, they should have held a lottery to see who got to pull the hangman's lever, and given the procedes to the victims' family.
"Guard, we were having a pillow fight. I have absolutely no idea how the rock got in there."
Losing lots of sleep over who he molested, are you?
Seek and ye shall find.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice | |||
Name |
TDCJ Number |
Date of Birth |
Porter, James |
999378 |
8/15/1971 |
Date Received |
Age (when Received) |
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed) |
3/14/2001 |
29 | 7 |
Date of Offense |
Age (at the time of Offense) |
County |
5/28/2000 | 28 | Bowie |
Race |
Gender |
Hair Color |
White | Male | Brown |
Height |
Weight |
Eye Color |
5 ft 9 in | 131 | Blue |
Native County |
Native State |
Prior Occupation |
Tarrant | Texas | carpenter, laborer |
Prior Prison Record |
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#589124 on a 5 year sentence from Denton County for one count of burglary of a building. Released on parole to Denton County. Returned from Parole on 6/28/1995 as #712863 on a 45 year sentence from Denton County for one count of murder with a deadly weapon (involves Porter shooting a 40 year old white male transient two times in the head with a .25 caliber pistol and dumping the victim's body in a water well). On 1/14/1998, new commitments received from Madison County on a 5 year sentence for one count of possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution (homemade knife). | ||
Summary of incident |
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On 5/28/2000, Porter, an offender serving time for murder with a deadly weapon, entered a dayroom of the Telford Unit in Bowie County. He fatally assaulted an adult hispanic male offender with a rock inside a pillowcase, a homemade knife, and his boots. |
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Co-defendants |
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None |
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Race and Gender of Victim |
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hispanic male | ||
Photograph of Offender |
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Last updated: 06/13/2001
"A condemned killer was executed Tuesday night for the fatal prison beating of a convicted child molester"
A win-win situation if there ever was one
Isn't it nice when everything just works out so well?
They are both discontented rabble. One shall not miss them.
I wise use of my tax dollars. What I don't like is that he will be buried in Texas soil. He is unworthy.
I thought killing a child molester was a misdemeanor. </sarc>
It should be.
Die subhuman filth, die. (No, not you SL)
Should be a *freebie*, in The Justice System®.
Whew!
;)
"I thought killing a child molester was a misdemeanor"
I'm surprised there were any witnesses(who me? I didn't see anything)
"Race and Gender of Victim"
This is an interesting item to have on the form.
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