Texan Executed After Assailing Society as ‘a Bunch of Cold-Blooded Murderers’ : Texan Executed After Assailing Society as Killers
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — Murderer Henry Martinez Porter was executed Tuesday after assailing society as “a bunch of cold-blooded murderers.â€
Porter, 43, of San Antonio, became the second Texas prisoner to receive a lethal injection in two weeks and the fifth this year. Forty-seven persons have been executed in the United States since a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision permitted states to resume the death penalty. Porter had been on Death Row for nearly eight years for the slaying in 1975 of Fort Worth policeman Henry Mailloux.
“I want people to know that they called me a cold-blooded murderer, and I shot a man who shot me first,†Porter said in a final statement as he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber.
“I didn’t tie anyone down on a stretcher and put poison into his veins from behind a locked door. I call this and I call your society a bunch of cold-blooded murderers.â€
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