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| Lawyers Want Supreme Court to Block Execution of Texas Inmate Convicted in Prison Guard’s Death |
| By houstonpublicmedia.org |
| Published: 10/12/2017 |
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Attorneys for an inmate convicted in a prison guard’s death are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Thursday evening execution. Robert Pruett’s lawyers want justices to review whether lower courts properly denied a federal civil rights lawsuit that sought additional DNA testing in the case. They are also questioning whether a prisoner who claims actual innocence, as Pruett does, can be put to death. Pruett, 38, was already serving 99 years in prison for a neighbor’s killing when he was convicted in the December 1999 death of Daniel Nagle, a corrections officer at a prison southeast of San Antonio. Nagle was repeatedly stabbed with a tape-wrapped metal rod, though an autopsy showed the assault caused a heart attack that killed him. Read More. |
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