Florida death row inmate James Robertson is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke at noon on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, nearly 18 years after deliberately murdering his sleeping cellmate to secure a capital sentence
The 63-year-old prisoner strangled fellow inmate Frank Hart using socks tied together at Charlotte Correctional Institution in December 2008, openly admitting to investigators that he committed the unprovoked killing because he had grown exhausted by decades of incarceration and wished to be executed.
