David Kevin Hocker, 33, was executed September 30, 2004 at 6:24 p.m. by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama for the March 21, 1998 murder of his employer, Jerry Wayne Robinson, 47.
Hocker was living in a motel and did not have a car, and asked his boss, Jerry Wayne Robinson to drive him to run an errand. Hocker stabbed and beat Robinson to death with a knife and dumped the body. He used the victim's bank card to get cash to purchase $400 worth of crack cocaine and later turned himself in at the Mobile County Sheriff's Department. Following the arrest, Hocker led investigators to Robinson's body in a wooded area in Headland. Hocker waived further appeals.
David Kevin Hocker, 33, was executed September 30, 2004 at 6:24 p.m. by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama for the March 21, 1998 murder of his employer, Jerry Wayne Robinson, 47.
Hocker was living in a motel and did not have a car, and asked his boss, Jerry Wayne Robinson to drive him to run an errand. Hocker stabbed and beat Robinson to death with a knife and dumped the body. He used the victim's bank card to get cash to purchase $400 worth of crack cocaine and later turned himself in at the Mobile County Sheriff's Department. Following the arrest, Hocker led investigators to Robinson's body in a wooded area in Headland. Hocker waived further appeals.
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