Texas executed Troy Clark and Daniel Acker by lethal
injection on consecutive nights, reported The Associated Press. Acker who insisted he didn't run over and kill
his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago was executed on
September 27, 2018 in Huntsville.
Acker was sentenced to die for the March 2000 slaying of
Marquetta George of Sulphur Springs.
Prosecutors say Acker ran over George with his truck in
rural northeast Texas because he believed she had been unfaithful to him.
Acker's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his
execution, arguing he's innocent of capital murder because his 32-year-old
girlfriend's fatal injuries were a result of her decision to jump from his
truck after he abducted her.
The court declined to halt the execution.
Clark taunted jurors to sentence him to death was executed
just after 6 p.m. September 26, 2018 in Huntsville for torturing and drowning
an East Texas woman in his bathtub and then stuffing her body into a barrel.
Clark murdered his former roommate, Christina Muse, 20, of
Tyler. Authorities say Clark, a drug dealer, had worried his ex-roommate would
snitch on him.
Clark had argued his trial attorneys failed to present
evidence of his troubled childhood, which might have convinced jurors to spare
his life.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to recommend
a commutation of Clark's sentence.
Clark was the ninth prisoner put to death this year in
Texas, the nation's busiest capital punishment state. Acker was the tenth.
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