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James Robertson, 63, was executed in Florida on Tuesday after strangling his cellmate in 2008 to secure a death sentence.
Robertson died at Florida State Prison approximately 10 minutes after receiving a three-drug lethal injection, declining to offer a final statement beyond the remark, "Nah, I’m straight." The execution followed a period of heightened activity for the state's death penalty system.
Jordan Kirkland, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections, stated ahead of the execution that Florida maintains a "sound lethal injection process and protocol" and would ensure the procedure was "humane and dignified." This assurance came two weeks after the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, who survived two doses of pentobarbital and was subsequently released from a hospital to return to prison.
Robertson had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for killing Frank Hart while Hart slept. Hart was eight days away from his scheduled release at the time of the murder.
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