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| Texas inmate facing execution wins reprieve from state judge |
| By journalgazette.net- Michael Graczyk |
| Published: 04/29/2015 |
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas judge on Tuesday halted the execution of an inmate convicted of stabbing a corrections officer to death more than 15 years ago. Robert Pruett received the reprieve from Judge Bert Richardson just hours before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber at a Huntsville prison. Richardson, a judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is serving as a visiting judge in the district court where Pruett was convicted. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said Pruett told him that he was "excited to hear the news" and then returned to a different prison where death row inmates are housed about 45 miles away. Richardson's order was in response to a motion from Pruett's attorneys, who sought new DNA tests on the piece of metal used to kill 37-year-old officer Daniel Nagle in December 1999 at a South Texas prison. Read More. |
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