The Latest: Man executed in Texas for prison guard’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the execution of a Texas inmate who was convicted in a prison guard’s 1999 death (all times local):
6:55 p.m.
A Texas inmate convicted in the death of a prison guard has been executed after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyer’s attempts to halt the punishment.
Robert Pruett was given a lethal injection Thursday evening for the December 1999 death of corrections officer Daniel Nagle at a prison southeast of San Antonio. Nagle was rep