Exclusive: Robertson has been on death row for 26 years and wants to drop his appeal. He will die by electric chair, firing ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Florida death row inmate James Barnes, who confessed to killing his estranged wife, was executed Thursday for the brutal murder of another woman — the fifth execution in the ...

Exclusive: Rock Hill’s James “Jimmy” Robertson has spent 26 years on South Carolina’s death row after he was convicted in 1999 of killing his parents.

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 ...