Entries tagged with “Robert Pruett”
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Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Oct 10, 2017
Texas Set to Execute Robert Pruett for Prison Murder Despite Corruption and Lack of Physical Evidence
Though no physical evidence links him to the crime, Texas is set to execute Robert Pruett (pictured) on October 12 for the 1999 stabbing death of a state correctional officer who was at the center of a prison corruption investigation. Results of a DNA test of the murder weapon in 2015 found DNA that matched neither Pruett nor the victim, Officer Daniel…