Henry Martinez Porter was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of a police officer
According to court documents Henry Martinez Porter would pull off a number of armed robberies and on the last one would be pulled over by Fort Worth Police Officer Henry Paul Mailoux. A gunfight would ensue and the officer was fatally shot
Henry Martinez Porter would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Henry Martinez Porter would be executed by lethal injection on July 9 1985
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Henry Martinez Porter would be executed on July 9 1985
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Henry Martinez Porter was executed by lethal injection
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Henry Martinez Porter, calling society ”a bunch of cold-blooded murderers,” was executed early today for the slaying of a Fort Worth police officer nearly 10 years ago.
Mr. Porter, the second Texas prisoner to be given lethal injection in two weeks, insisted to his last breath, at 12:31 A.M., that his killing of Officer Henry Mailloux was in self-defense.
”I want people to know that they called me a cold-blooded murderer, and I shot a man who shot me first,” Mr. 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.”
Mr. Porter also said he was a victim of prejudice against Mexican-Americans.
”They call it equal justice, but it is your equal justice,” he said. ”A Mexican life is worth nothing.”
He then asked for forgiveness from God and asked a prison chaplain to give his best to his family.
Mr. Porter, 43 years old, from San Antonio, was a former painter’s helper with a long criminal history that included burglary, robbery, assault, forgery and automobile theft. He was a drug addict who said his habit once cost him as much as $1,000 a day.
He was tried and convicted twice of the slaying Nov. 29, 1975. The first conviction was overturned. The second was appealed to the Supreme Court.
