Volunteers, as they are called in death penalty circles, have been around since the death penalty was reinstated 50 years ago. About 10% of all U.S. executions are inmates who agree to die before ...

James Robertson was sentenced to die for in the murder of Rock Hill parents. With SC reinstating its death penalty, he now wants to expedite his execution.

Included was Robertson’s best friend on death row, Marion Bowman Jr., killed by lethal injection on Jan. 31, Paavola said. Paavola asked the judge to hold off on Robertson’s request for four ...

A federal court judge has appointed an attorney to determine if James Robertson is capable of representing himself; he made a ...

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father with the claw end of a hammer and a baseball bat and stabbed his mother. He ...

Three others have opted to die by lethal injection, although an autopsy on Marion Bowman, executed on Jan. 31, showed a fluid buildup in his lungs that may have given the sensation of drowning as ...

South Carolina death row inmate, James Robertson, has revealed the seriously bleak reason why he volunteered to be executed after killing both his parents.

James Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. Now he says he's ready to die.