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Execution set for man who murdered Texas correctional officer

Robert Lynn Pruett, 35, will be put to death on April 28 in Huntsville

By C1 Staff

BEEVILLE, Texas – An execution date has been set for the man who killed a Bee County correctional officer in December of 1999.

KII TV reports that Robert Lynn Pruett, 35, will be put to death on April 28 in Huntsville.

Pruett was serving a life sentence for a murder when he stabbed officer Daniel Nagel to death while incarcerated at the McConnel Unit in Bee County.

KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend