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~ Daniel Acker, 27Sep18, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: September 26, 2018, 7:43 pm
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Execution date set for northeast Texas man convicted of
strangling girlfriend--
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
A northeast Texas judge this week signed off on an execution
date for the Sulphur Springs man convicted of strangling his
girlfriend and pushing her from a moving car.
Daniel Acker was sent to death row in 2001 for the slaying of
Marquetta George. He is now scheduled to die by lethal injection
on Sept. 27, his lawyer said Tuesday.
At the time of the slaying in March 2000, Acker and George were
sharing a rented trailer in Hopkins County when they got in a
fight after a night at the Bustin' Loose nightclub.
Afterward, they parted ways and later Acker went searching for
the 32-year-old, according to court filings. Her bloodied body
was eventually found on the side of a road, and investigators
fingered Acker for the killing.
Prosecutors said her boyfriend strangled her, then dumped her
body.
Source: Houston Chronicle
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Re: ~ Daniel Acker, 27Sep18, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: September 27, 2018, 7:03 pm
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Texas man put to death in state's second execution in two
nights--
Thursday, September 27, 2018
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The whole thing started with a fight at the Bustin' Loose
nightclub. It was a late night, with lots of booze - and
whispers of another man involved.
When it was all said and done, Marquetta George ended up dead
and bloodied on the side of the road. Eighteen years later, on
Thursday night, her former boyfriend Daniel Acker was put to
death for her murder.
He always maintained his innocence but gave no final statement,
according to Texas prison officials. The 46-year-old was
pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m., 14 minutes after the lethal dose
began.
Acker's execution was the state's second in as many nights - and
the 10th here this year.
The Sulphur Springs man was convicted of strangling his
32-year-old girlfriend and pushing her from a moving car,
according to court records.
At the time of the slaying in March 2000, Acker and George were
sharing a rented trailer in Hopkins County. The night of
George's death, the troubled couple started fighting at the bar
- and he bluntly commented that he was going to kill her,
according to court records.
Later, Acker got kicked out of the club, while George went home
with another man, a bouncer named Calico. But in the wee hours
of the morning, Acker went out looking for her, scouring the
town all night and even stopping at her mother's house.
While there, he told the woman's mother that it was OK if she'd
stayed out the night alone. But, he added, "if I find out she
was with anybody, I'm going to kill 'em."
He didn't get back to his trailer till around 10 a.m., and
George showed up about an hour later.
Acker wanted to find out if she'd cheated, so he violently
forced his girlfriend into his truck and tried bringing her to
Calico's house for a confrontation.
But the two never made it. Instead, George ended up on the side
of the road dead. Prosecutors argued that Acker strangled her
then tossed her from the truck - and a jury agreed.
This week, the parole board denied his request for clemency. As
of Thursday morning, his last hope for reprieve was an appeal in
front of the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that he shouldn't be
executed based on a theory of the crime abandoned only after his
conviction.
The state disagreed.
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