South Carolina death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed
May 21, 2025
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. James Robertson has asked to become his own attorney which would likely mean his own execution in weeks or months. A federal judge has ordered a 45-day delay in Robertson’s request to have a different lawyer talk to him. The 51-year-old Robertson has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home to try to get part of their $2 million estate.
