Texas Executes Murderer of Worker at Video Store

HUNTSVILLE, Texas —  A man was executed by injection Thursday evening for fatally shooting a video store clerk eight years ago in College Station.

When the warden asked whether he had a last statement, Stanley Baker said he was “just sorry” about what he did.

Prosecutors said Baker, dressed in green fatigues, walked into the adult video store Sept. 28, 1994, carrying a 12-gauge shotgun. He shot the clerk, Wayne Walters, in the back of the head as the clerk was lying on the floor.

Baker was driving the victim’s truck and had about $50 taken from the store when he was arrested a few hours later.

Baker said he was at a loss to explain what set him off. “I ask myself that too,” he said during a recent interview on death row.

At least five executions are scheduled for June, putting Texas on a pace for the year to nearly equal the record 40 executions in 2000. Baker was the state’s 15th this year.