Roy 'Hog' Roberts
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Roy Michael "Hog" Roberts (December 18, 1952 – 10 March 1999) was executed in Missouri
by lethal injection
for the murder of a guard named Tom Jackson. A new investigation has been opened to see about the possibility that Roberts was innocent of the crime.
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
by lethal injection
Lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...
for the murder of a guard named Tom Jackson. A new investigation has been opened to see about the possibility that Roberts was innocent of the crime.
See also
- List of individuals executed in Missouri
- Capital punishment in the United StatesCapital punishment in the United StatesCapital punishment in the United States, in practice, applies only for aggravated murder and more rarely for felony murder. Capital punishment was a penalty at common law, for many felonies, and was enforced in all of the American colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence...
Sources
- Missouri death sentence case gets another look. MSNBCMSNBCMSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
(2005-08-05). Retrieved on 2007-11-15. - State of Missouri v. Roy Roberts. The Missourinet. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
- Death Row - Capital Punishment in Missouri - Executions: 1989-2005. The Missourinet. Retrieved on 2007-11-18.