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| Texas set to execute man today |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/12/2004 |
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Texas death row inmate Donald Aldrich acknowledged that he wasn't entirely blameless in the 1993 slaying of a Tyler man who was targeted because he was gay. But Mr. Aldrich insisted that he wasn't the one who took Nicholas West's life. "I'm not totally innocent," Mr. Aldrich, 39, wrote on a Denmark-based Internet site devoted to condemned prisoners. "I was part of a crime that ended in the death of a young man, but did not play a part in his death." Mr. Aldrich, set to die tonight in the fatal shooting of the 23-year-old Mr. West, would be the second man executed for the slaying. He would be the 16th prisoner executed this year in Texas and the third in eight days; two more are scheduled this month. In February 2003, Henry Earl Dunn went to the Texas death chamber after similarly describing events that led to Mr. West's killing Nov. 30, 1993. Mr. Dunn said he was at the Tyler park known as a homosexual meeting spot where Mr. West, a medical clerk, was lured under the guise of seeking sex. Mr. West was abducted and taken to a remote area of Smith County. There, Mr. West was stripped, ordered to his knees and shot up to 15 times. Mr. Dunn, however, blamed Mr. Aldrich for what he said was a crime that "got out of control." At his trial, Mr. Aldrich blamed Mr. Dunn for starting the gunfire. Authorities believed both were participants. |
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