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~ Robert Pruett, 12Oct17, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: March 25, 2016, 4:00 am
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On December 17, 1999, Pruett physically assaulted a male
correctional officer at the McConnell Unit in Bee County,
resulting in the death of the correctional officer.
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Re: ~ Robert Pruett, 12Oct17, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: August 17, 2016, 10:01 am
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Prison Guard's Convicted Killer Wins Another Execution Stay--
August 11, 2016
A Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge has again stopped the
scheduled execution of Robert Lynn Pruett, convicted in the 1999
stabbing death of a state correctional officer. Pruett’s
scheduled execution in 2015 was also halted at the last minute
so that DNA testing could be conducted on tape covering the
handle of a knife used in the murder.
Judge Lawrence Meyers, a member of the appeals court, granted
his request for another stay on Thursday, ruling that Pruett’s
execution should be halted “pending further order of this
Court.”
Pruett had been scheduled for execution on Aug. 23.
According to court documents, Pruett fatally stabbed state
Department of Criminal Justice correctional officer Daniel
Nagle. Pruett, convicted of capital murder in 2002, insists he
was framed for the slaying. A criminal appeals court judge
granted Pruett’s request for additional DNA testing just hours
before the scheduled execution last year.
The testing was inconclusive and failed to exonerate Pruett,
according to court documents. He appealed that finding early
this year, disputing the conclusion that it was “not reasonably
probable” that he would have escaped conviction with the new DNA
test results available at the time of the trial.
When he granted Pruett’s request for the DNA testing last year,
Judge Bert Richardson expressed some skepticism, suggesting that
it was likely a tactic to delay the execution.
“The court has no doubt the request for the proposed DNA testing
was made to delay the execution of sentence,” Richardson wrote
in 2015. “However, at this point, although such delay tactics
appear to be unreasonable, it is not clear that they, in fact,
are unreasonable. Although unlikely, it is not impossible to
conceive that there could be exculpatory results.”
Meyers did not indicate in his two-page ruling on Thursday when
the court would issue a further order.
A Criminal Appeals Court judge on Thursday also dismissed two
writs of habeas corpus Pruett filed in 2016, asserting that he
was innocent and accusing the state of making undisclosed deals
with witnesses and depending on false testimony and forensic
evidence.
Source:
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Re: ~ Robert Pruett, 12Oct17, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 17, 2017, 7:44 pm
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Convicted killer of prison guard from Central Texas executed--
October 12, 2017
HUNTSVILLE-- The convicted killer of a corrections officer from
Central Texas was executed Thursday evening in Huntsville after
the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour appeal.
Robert Pruett, 38, was executed just after 6 p.m. Thursday for
the 1999 murder of corrections officer Daniel Nagle.
Nagle, a Gatesville native, died of a heart attack after he was
stabbed repeatedly with a metal rod in an attack that
authorities say stemmed from a fight over a peanut butter
sandwich that Pruett wanted to take into a recreation yard at
the McConnell Unit near Beeville.
Pruett was serving a 99-year sentence for the murder of a
neighbor at the time of the attack.
The six-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously
rejected Pruett’s clemency petition earlier Thursday.
He was the sixth Texas prisoner executed this year.
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