Florida carries out execution amid scrutiny over botched Tennessee attempt
James Robertson was the state’s 17th execution this year, amid scrutiny over failed lethal injection of Christa Pike
TL;DR
- James Robertson was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday.
- Robertson was convicted of the 2008 murder of his cellmate.
- This execution followed a botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.
- A second planned execution for William Lee Thompson was withdrawn by Governor Ron DeSantis due to potential insanity.
- Robertson withdrew all appeals and confessed to the murder, stating he wanted to be on death row.
- Florida's execution protocol uses a three-drug lethal injection process.
- Two more executions are scheduled in Florida for October and November.
- If they proceed, Florida will tie its modern-day record of 19 executions in a calendar year.