Volunteers, as they are called in death penalty circles, have been around since the death penalty was reinstated 50 years ago ...

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

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

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father ...

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

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 ...

A South Carolina inmate whose best friend and four other inmates have been put to death in less than a year appears to want to die himself.