BEEVILLE (AP) — A state district judge has put off next week’s scheduled execution of a Texas inmate condemned for the slaying of a corrections officer at a South Texas prison in 1999.
Robert Pruett faced lethal injection May 21 for the fatal stabbing of Dan Nagle, a corrections officer at the McConnell Unit prison near Beeville. Attorneys for Pruett want additional DNA testing in his case. Prosecutors agreed to a 60-day delay.