A 55-year-old inmate who was condemned for the abduction, sexual assault and beating death of a nine-year-old girl, was executed just after 6 p.m. Thursday in Huntsville. Melvin Wayne White confessed to the slaying of Jennifer Gravell, who lived two houses from him in the small West Texas town of Ozona. White blamed a lifelong drinking problem for the killing, but prosecutors insisted White was a pedophile who used alcohol as an excuse for his actions. Jennifer's father, Charlie Gravell, shot himself to death in May 2003.