Daniel Acker
Daniel Acker, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on September 27, 2018, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Texas Tribune reported that he was put to death with pentobarbital hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal. His attorneys argued that the state's account of how the victim died had changed and that her death may have been an accident, but the courts upheld the ruling. He gave no final statement, and no friends or family were present at the time of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Daniel Acker's attorneys argued that the state's theory of how the victim died had changed and that her death may have been an accident.
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him); the prison department. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.