Daniel James Nagle
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Corrections Officer

Daniel James Nagle

Felonious
End of Watch December 17, 1999
Age 37
Tour of Duty 4 yrs
The Vigil Panel 146 ›
Gender Male

Incident

Corrections Officer Daniel Nagle was stabbed to death by an inmate at the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas.

Officer Nagle's body was found in a hallway between two recreation rooms in a minimum security area. The weapon that was used was a homemade eight-inch sharpened cylinder rod.

The inmate murdered Officer Nagle as revenge for not being allowed to carry a sack lunch into a recreation yard. On April 23rd, 2002, the suspect was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death. In January 2012 his appeal of the sentence was denied by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was executed by lethal injection on October 12th, 2017.

Officer Nagle had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for three years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three young children.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Corrections Officer Nagle gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer Nagle.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 17, 1999
Tour of Duty 4 yrs
Age 37
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Daniel is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1999, 58 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 133rd heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Daniel was 37. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Daniel had served 4 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
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Age by years of service
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When

December holds 9.4% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Fridays: 14.3%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division has at least 120 officers remembered here, Daniel among them.

Across the years
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Where

Corrections Officer Daniel James Nagle

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch December 17, 1999

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 47-E

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