Roberts was incarcerated at Charlotte Correctional Institution, and according to court documents, he tied several socks together and strangled his cellmate while the man slept.
A 63-year-old Florida prisoner who admitted to strangling his cellmate in 2008 so he could be sent to death row is set to be executed on Tuesday. James Robertson is scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke after waiving all post-conviction appeals.
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida prisoner who claimed he killed his cellmate so he could be moved to death row is set to be executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the fatal attack. James Robertson, 63, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and waived all appeals in the 2008 strangling of Frank Hart.
James Robertson was supposed to be one of two executions carried out by the state Tuesday, but Gov. Ron DeSantis withdrew a death warrant last week for William Lee Thompson.
STARKE, Fla. — A Florida prisoner who said he killed his cellmate so he could be moved to death row was executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the fatal attack. James Robertson, 63, was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m. after receiving a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.
James Robertson, a Florida prisoner who said he killed his cellmate specifically to get on death row, was executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the attack.
A Florida inmate who strangled his cellmate in the hopes of receiving the death penalty rather than spend his remaining years in prison was executed on Tuesday.
STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida prisoner who said he killed his cellmate specifically to get on death row was executed Tuesday, nearly 18 years after the attack.
