Here's his pic, from that site:
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,"
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Imagine being his Mother. Sitting there as he was dying. What could she have been thinking, in her clouded, pained mind? Was she thinking about the day she watched him come into this world? Did she have flashes of his youthful play antics?
That is unconcievable to me.
What a scumbag he must have been, to do that to his Mother and family.
My Prayers are with her, hopefully, she is worthy of the Lord's Love and Compassion.
:O)
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Here's his pic, from that site:
Yep! bump!
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