Sept. 27
ALABAMA----impending volunteer execution
Hocker faces execution for murder of his boss in Houston County
David Kevin Hocker continues to waive any appeals and is scheduled to be
executed at 6 p.m. Thursday for stabbing his boss to death in Houston
County in 1998 and stealing his money to buy crack cocaine.
Hocker, 33, has filed no final-week appeal of his death sentence for the
March 21, 1998, stabbing death and robbery of Jerry Wayne Robinson, 47, of
Columbia in Houston County, state's attorneys said Monday.
Hocker, who had been living in a Dothan motel, was accused of shooting
Robinson as he sat in a truck in Headland and dumping Robinson's body in
neighboring Henry County. A worker with Robinson's structural steel
detailing company, Hocker used the victim's bank card to get cash to
purchase $400 worth of crack cocaine. He later turned himself in at the
Mobile County Sheriff's Department.
Hocker's initial appeal was rejected by the Alabama Court of Criminal
Appeals. He then filed court documents waiving his right to further
appeals.
Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said Hocker has
given no indication that he has changed his mind. Corbett said prison
officials are going on with plans for the execution by lethal injection
Thursday at Holman Prison in Atmore.
Hocker has not made a request for clemency to Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, said
Jeff Emerson, the governor's communications director.
During his trial 4 years ago, Hocker admitted killing Robinson. "I'm
guilty," he told the judge.
(source: Associated Press)
