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Killer who sought death penalty is executed
AP ^ | 1/4/5 | MICHAEL GRACZYK

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: execution; justice
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Delgado got his justice, too.
1 posted on 01/04/2005 6:14:04 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

"Delgado got his justice, too."

And rightly so.


2 posted on 01/04/2005 6:20:52 PM PST by TAquinas (Should I call it ZotBlog or BlogZot. Suggestions welcome.)
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To: SmithL

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.


3 posted on 01/04/2005 6:21:42 PM PST by pissant
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To: SmithL

"Guard, we were having a pillow fight. I have absolutely no idea how the rock got in there."


4 posted on 01/04/2005 6:22:33 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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"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."

Losing lots of sleep over who he molested, are you?

5 posted on 01/04/2005 6:22:55 PM PST by ShadowDancer (Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.)
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To: SmithL
Killer who sought death penalty is executed

Seek and ye shall find.

6 posted on 01/04/2005 6:23:29 PM PST by Ryan Spock
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"He didn't feel the same pain my brother did."

Did her brother feel the same pain that his victim did? I don't sympathize with hypocrites - not even bereaved ones.
7 posted on 01/04/2005 6:26:52 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: SmithL
good riddens to both,and now the rest of he story;

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Return to Death Row Page

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

#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

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. 

Co-defendants

None

Race and Gender of Victim

hispanic male

Photograph of Offender

picture of offender

Last updated:  06/13/2001

8 posted on 01/04/2005 6:27:12 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve to keep us free)
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To: SmithL

"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


9 posted on 01/04/2005 6:28:57 PM PST by Figment (Ich bin ein Jesuslander)
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Losing lots of sleep over who he molested, are you?

Exactly! What a hypocrite she is. If that were my brother (the molester), I would deny even knowing him. (disgusting perverted scum!!!)
10 posted on 01/04/2005 6:29:47 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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To: SmithL

Isn't it nice when everything just works out so well?


11 posted on 01/04/2005 6:38:27 PM PST by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: Figment

They are both discontented rabble. One shall not miss them.


12 posted on 01/04/2005 6:40:44 PM PST by tenthirteen
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To: thegreatbeast

I wise use of my tax dollars. What I don't like is that he will be buried in Texas soil. He is unworthy.


13 posted on 01/04/2005 6:44:36 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: SmithL

I thought killing a child molester was a misdemeanor. </sarc>


14 posted on 01/04/2005 6:48:35 PM PST by Horatio Gates
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To: shotokan

It should be.


15 posted on 01/04/2005 6:53:33 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: SmithL

Die subhuman filth, die. (No, not you SL)


16 posted on 01/04/2005 6:53:40 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: shotokan

Should be a *freebie*, in The Justice System®.


17 posted on 01/04/2005 6:58:34 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Whew!
;)


18 posted on 01/04/2005 7:36:49 PM PST by SmithL (People who are willing to accept everything, don't believe in anything.)
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To: shotokan

"I thought killing a child molester was a misdemeanor"

I'm surprised there were any witnesses(who me? I didn't see anything)


19 posted on 01/04/2005 7:42:14 PM PST by Figment (Ich bin ein Jesuslander)
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"Race and Gender of Victim"

This is an interesting item to have on the form.


20 posted on 01/04/2005 7:51:34 PM PST by Kerfuffle
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