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| Inmate executed for prison slaying |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/10/2005 |
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Condemned inmate James Porter got what he wanted. The 33-year-old convicted killer spurned appeals and voluntarily went to the Texas death chamber Tuesday night, fulfilling his wish that he be executed for killing a fellow prisoner during an attack nearly five years ago. ``I am sorry for the pain I have caused you,'' he said in brief comments in the seconds before the lethal drugs took effect and as relatives of his victim and members of his own family watched through separate windows a few feet away. ``And to my family, I love you and I will see you in all in heaven.'' He had virtually no reaction to the drugs. Six minutes after they began flowing into veins in his heavily tattooed arms, he was pronounced dead, making him the first inmate executed this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state. Porter, from Lake Dallas, was sentenced to die for using a smuggled rock wrapped in a pillowcase to fatally pummel Rudy Delgado, 40, a convicted child molester, during a May 2000 assault at a state prison near Texarkana. Porter's lawyer, Robin Norris, said Porter had been advised that attorneys were ready to help him, even until the last minute. Porter, however, never wavered from his desire to die. Porter already was serving a 45-year term for the 1995 shooting death of a transient in Denton County when he attacked Delgado, who also was stabbed and kicked. Delgado had been serving a 15-year term for sexually assaulting a child in Dallas County. Porter said Delgado was gay and made a pass at him, which the former white supremacist didn't appreciate. He said he eventually realized he was wrong to repunish Delgado ``for something he was already punished for.'' ``I'm just thankful I had the chance to get salvation,'' he said, adding that he was convinced he would be going to heaven ``although I don't deserve it.'' Porter was one of at least nine men in Texas with execution dates already this year, including three more this month. |
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