Marion Pruett was a serial killer who would be executed by the State of Arkansas
According to court documents Marion Pruett was given a new identity after he would testify in a Federal Prison Murder case. Once released Pruett would rob a bank where he would kidnap Peggy Love during a bank robbery who he would later murder. Marion would also murder Bobbie Jean Robertson, a convenience store clerk in Fort Smith, Arkansas; and Anthony Taitt and James Balderson, two convenience store clerks in Colorado. Pruett was also convicted in the murder of Pamela Sue Barker
Marion Pruett would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Marion Pruett would be executed by lethal injection on April 12 1999
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Marion Pruett Case
A man convicted of killing five people was executed by injection Monday for the 1981 slaying of a convenience store clerk.
Marion Albert Pruett, 49, was condemned for the Oct. 12, 1981, shooting death of Fort Smith convenience store clerk Bobbie Jean Robertson.
Robertson was killed in a weeklong streak of terror that led Pruett to dub himself a “mad-dog killer.” Earlier in 1981, Pruett killed his wife in New Mexico and a Mississippi bank loan officer. Four days after Robertson’s death, Pruett killed two convenience store workers in Colorado.
He received life sentences for the four killings outside Arkansas, but got the death sentence for his conviction in the state.
A federal judge set aside Pruett’s Arkansas conviction in 1997, saying pretrial publicity prevented him from receiving a fair trial. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction and death sentence last year, saying Pruett helped generate some of the publicity by implicating himself in various crimes and giving himself the “mad-dog” nickname
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/04/13/arkansas-executes-man-convicted-of-5-slayings/
