Robert pruett autobiography
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Current Affairs
It is very unsettling to have a conversation with someone for the first time, just before they are about to be killed. A few weeks ago, I tried to get in touch with a man named Robert Pruett. A friend of his wrote back with an address, adding: “You might not want to lose too much time.” She told me that this upcoming Thursday evening, the 12th, Robert is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas. I had known that Robert was on Death Row. I hadn’t realized he had about a month left on Earth.
I wanted to talk to Robert because for three years, I have been thinking about him. In , I was prowling around one of the more depressing parts of the internet—a webpage with the life stories of Death Row inmates—and I happened across a link to a document labeled, simply, Robert Pruett’s Autobiography. It had nine chapters, and a preface. I intended to skim over it lightly, arrogantly presuming I pretty much knew the trajectory of prison memoirs. Instead, I spent t
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As Texas Prepares to Kill Robert Pruett, He Leaves Behind a Literary Indictment of Us All
On Thursday, the state of Texas will kill Robert Pruett.
The year-old has been behind bars since he was
He was arrested in as an accomplice in his father&#;s murder of a neighbor; five years later, a prison guard who had given him a disciplinary infraction for eating a sandwich in a hallway was found stabbed to death. Although he continues to maintain that he is innocent, multiple witnesses claimed that Pruett was responsible, and he was sentenced to death for the crime.
For proponents of the death penalty, the events that define Pruett&#;s life serve as the case for killing him. He spent his pre-prison years in a vortex of violence &#; getting into fights, stealing, developing a drug addiction. Once he arrived in prison, he briefly flirted with neo-Nazi beliefs, reading &#;Mein Kampf&#; and getting a swastika tattoo to intimidate other inmates.
Wherever you fall on the question of Pr
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Robert Lynn Pruett
American man executed in Texas (–)
Robert Lynn Pruett | |
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| Born | ()September 18, Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | October 12, () (aged&#;38) Huntsville enhet, Huntsville, Texas, U.S. |
| Cause&#;of death | Execution by lethal injection |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Conviction(s) | Capital murder Murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death (April 30, ) |
| Victims | Ray Yarborough, 28 Daniel James Nagle, 37 |
| Date | August 9, December 17, |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Texas |
Robert Lynn Pruett (September 18, – October 12, ) was a Texas man convicted and executed for the murder of TDCJ Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle (September 9, – December 17, ) at the McConnell Unit, Bee County.[1] Pruett had been certified as an adult at 16 and was already serving a year sentence for his involvement in the murder of Ray Yarborough (January 4, – August 9, ), which occurred when Pruett was Pruett was convicted along with Howard Steven "Sam" Pruett Sr. (b