James Porter was executed tonight.
James Porter was executed tonight.
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James Porter was executed tonight. He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Porter dropped his appeals and ordered nothing be done to stop the execution.
Porter, 33, was sentenced to die for using a smuggled rock wrapped in a pillowcase to fatally pummel fellow 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 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Telford Unit near Texarkana.
Delgado, who also was stabbed and kicked, was serving a 15-year term for sexually assaulting a child.
Porter, 33, was sentenced to die for using a smuggled rock wrapped in a pillowcase to fatally pummel fellow 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 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Telford Unit near Texarkana.
Delgado, who also was stabbed and kicked, was serving a 15-year term for sexually assaulting a child.
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- (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, 04/01/2005)
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