Begging for Death Row: James Robertson | World’s Most Evil Prisoners | Forensic Files

in the United States of America some of the world's most notorious criminals are
locked behind bars one of those is James Robertson he was sent to prison for violent crimes at an early
age he wasn't 17 yet he commits serious offenses aggravated batteries assaults on Law Enforcement
Officers he is a criminal who has refused to comply he escaped with his codefendant and they were caught and now
he faced another case another charge and he got two more years consecutive he met
criteria for psychopathy that means that engaging in criminal activity he had very little remorse and very little
empathy for all of those acts he engaged in now Behind Bars Robertson has targeted those working in the jail I was
stabbed in the center of the chest and then he stabbed me one more time uh in the stomach they are people that would
kill you as soon as you opened your mouth if you said something wrong you have to be trained for and if you're not
you're going to end up dead he is one of the most feared men in the US prison system he's going to be in
danger with anyone he comes into contact with because he's so focused on serving
his own needs that it really doesn't matter who is in his way he actually confronted his cellmate and said to him
I'm going to give you a choice I can tie you up and torture you or I can kill you
locked away for life he has nothing to lose he started at a young age and it just went from bad to worse anybody can
be collateral damage and that's what makes him one of the most dangerous prisoners he had choked him with dental
floss and then he finished with a song He's sitting there with a corpse he's eating breakfast and he's just sitting
[Music] there Charlotte Correctional Institute is a state prison in Florida flid United
States Charlotte Correctional was a very very difficult tough prison the environment for me working there was the
closest thing to being in Hell the smell the inmates constantly masturbated they
were shouting they were banging they were flooding their cells it was very very difficult on one floor of the prison are
a group of prisoners so dangerous they are underwatch 24/7 these aren't just inmates who have
assaulted murdered and raped in the community these are inmates that continue to assault and rape and murder
while they're in prison so they require a high level of security a high level of
monitoring James Robertson is one of them Robertson is probably one of the most dangerous inmates in the United
States prison system he's going to be a danger to inmates he's going to be a danger to staff he's going to be a
danger to correction officers December 19th 2011 when I came to work and my life kind of changed
forever during my shift I was walking my rounds James Robertson was in his cell and asked me to take the trash out for
him I made a mistake and opened his cell door and was actually attacked and stabbed by
James he was incarcerated I believe at the age of 16 initially they were nonviolent crimes but he quickly
escalated to violence he commits serious offenses berley rest structur aggravated
assault and a law enforcement officer aggravated battery he was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison but once
he was incarcerated he decided that he wanted to go to death row and so he decided to murder his cellmate in order
to get the death penalty my name is an otwell and I've been at Charlotte kraal as a forensic mental
health nurse for 30 years when I first met James he was angry he had been in prison for many
years many years he had a wrap sheet that was unbelievable while he was in the prison
he committed some pretty bad crimes first-degree attempted murder aggravated battery
he never stopped consecutive sentence after consecutive sentence no stop and then
plotting out a murder because that's what he did he was probably able to engage in
assaults and murder with little to no feeling of any kind of empathy or remorse around that anyone who could
commit the crimes he did and not be phased and continue to commit these crimes what does he have to
lose before James Robertson was first imprison he had lived in Florida his whole life James Robertson was born in
Orlando Florida May 26 1963 the family ties were not good it was not what you'd call a Brady Bunch
family my name is Mike gried I was an officer for the Department of Corrections for a period of 20 3 years
James Robertson told me that his father beat him he told me his father was an alcoholic told me his mother was an
alcoholic he told me his brothers had been in the prison system Robertson had a very tumultuous childhood he also had
a history of abuse his father used to beat him physically in addition he came from a very low socioeconomic background
he had a lot of poverty and he was not placed in the best schools he also started engaging in drug use at
a very early age these are all risk factors for James Robertson to go on and engage in criminal activity at a very
early age which is exactly what he did on February 25th of 1975 he commits shoplifting not a real
serious crime kids do that all the time he had started his crimes at 12 years old and it just went from bad to worse
Robertson was hardly ever at school instead he chose to spend his time hanging out in his neighborhood robbing
anyone and anything he had so far managed to avoid a custodial sentence it's like you're skating on ice
but it's starting to Splinter the fact that he does one thing in January and another thing in February sends me the
message that he doesn't care where is anybody to sit him down where is a juvenile counselor to sit him down and
and speak to him and and tell him this is not going to end well the brain doesn't fully develop
until the age of 24 some of these juveniles tend to act out which ultimately ends up having early contact
with law enforcement getting arrested at an early age and it just becomes a pattern ending up in Correctional
Facilities as opposed to getting the help they require in 1978 when Robertson was just 14 years
old a violent attack on three youths saw him back in court this was a junile case in Orange
County it was three counts of aggravated battery and that's serious because you have victim injury one of the youth had
a cut and abrasions on his neck one was hit in the chest and one was hit under the right eye in the top of the right
foot and right leg he's found guilty of two counts he was committed to youth services for an
indetermined sentence less than a year later Robertson was kicked out of the school
and it was not long before he was back in trouble with the law he wasn't 17 yet he would be 17 in a couple of weeks May
26th he commits serious offenses berley rest structured he went in to steal something the cops came he threatened
the office officers he committed aggravated assault two counts don't forget he he burglarized a
building so we don't know what he had in his hand and he said you come near me and I'm going to do so and so well he
just jumped it up to aggravate it now you have a third degree felony those are serious
crimes Robertson was seen as a volatile and dangerous individual he was securely
locked away in an adult Institution for the first time and he was sentenced each
count four years State Prison normally it's concurrent this judge made it consecutive so now he's got 8 years you
don't go to prison right away so he was sent to the county jail the county jails
are for you know pre-trial to dises um or people who have a sentence of less than a year people usually think that a
County Jail is where you know it's smaller crimes and things like that but we actually have a wide array of inmates
there very wide spectrum including people who are on death row or doing life sentences he's in the county jail you
think he would learn no no not him after being behind bars for just 3 months Robertson had had enough and
plotted an escape he escaped with his codefendant and they were caught and now he faced another case another charge and
he got two more years consecutive now he's looking at 10 years all of his arrest record and I'm
seeing absolutely no remorse Robertson was transferred to a maximum security State Prison you can't
compare a Maximum Security Prison to a County Jail there's just no comparison he's a 17-year-old now he's going to a
state prison and he's newbie he's never been in a state institution and there are some really bad guys in state prison
most people that age would really be afraid what's interesting about Mr Robinson is that after he was arrested
and initially sentenced to 10 years in prison now 10 years is a long time but it's not a life sentence he continued to
engage in really egregious criminal activity in prison including stabbing and riots
prisons obviously are a dangerous place to work because they House people who have engaged in violent crimes and
things like rape and murder and assault and batteries for new inmates coming in it's a different world we had a lot of
older inmates who prayed on the younger inmates it's a difficult situation to be
in especially if you're brand new to the directional facilities one of the first inmates
17-year-old James Robertson encountered was Efron Yuro his words here are voiced
by an actor I was on the exercise yard working out when a Mexican friend of mine walked
up to me with a little blond haired blue-eyed white kid and said hey Chan look at this little white boy he just
got off the bus well when I saw him I laughed walked up to him and said you're cute and I
pinched his face well no sooner than I touched his face the scrawny little run scarcely
weighing 126 lb soak and wet hauled off and swung on me hitting me in the face Robertson had quickly learned how
to stay alive and a lot of them will look for protection from other inmates there are
gangs in the prison system whether it's a black gang Hispanic gang skin heads you know the supremist or stuff like
that so it's what direction are you going to turn who is going to help you and at what cost there's always a
price couldn't believe this little run swung on me before I knew it he ran for a curlbar that was lying on the ground
in the weight pile grabbed it and he was cocking it back to swing it at me I moved in and took him
down I quickly began to apologize saying okay okay shorty I'm sorry I'm going to
let you get up now I don't want any more trouble from you he looked at me just repeated don't try me don't try me over
and over and then never did it again that was how I met James Robertson AKA chicken head way back in
1981 he was 17 years old then demographically most of the young white guys who thought they were real
tough on the outside side they come into a state prison and you know what am I doing here I'm
afraid there's officers there they do checks and stuff like that but things happen you can't prevent
everything you always have inmates who are willing to engage in violence and illegal activities even after they are
incarcerated he seemed to be on a course to prove himself if James Robertson had kept his
head down he could have walked free from prison before he turned 30 but that just wasn't
going to happen at the age of 17 James Robertson also known as chicken head was sent to
State Prison after being convicted of burglary aggravated assault and attempted Escape he was sentenced to 10 years
behind bars so I don't know if you would have got gotten pared I I really don't know
but he would have been done only 27 years old James Robertson had initially got protection from an older prisoner Ephron
yo I told the Predators who were stalking him wanted to rape him that he was no punk and wasn't going to be a
punk and that I was enforcing that unfortunately I ended up getting into a fight and was transferred after I left
chicken head got into some was somebody who tried him and transferred to Cross City Correctional
Institution this was the beginning of the end for Robertson he was transferred from
facility to facility if he committed a crime in there if it was fighting if there was an assault then they'll ship
him out to another prison and in his case he went back and forth a lot he was bouncing around like a rubber ball from
one institution to another and nothing slowed him down everywhere Robertson went trouble was
not far behind from 1985 these crimes that were committed transmitting Contraband in a state
facility aggravated battery with a deadly weapon introducing a weapon into a state facility Escape battery and a
law enforcement officer construct a possession of a weapon I've come across a multitude of
weapons stabbing devices slashing devices batteries and rocks inside of a sock so they swing it around they hit
you on the head with it when they really want to kill somebody and they're really
desperate and they don't have access to making weapons what they will do is they
will cut out a piece of their cell their locker they'll get a needle cuz the needle's made out of titanium and they
will Trace over and over and over again till they punch it out and when they punch out that piece of uh metal they
sharpen it and that's how they make what's known as a Bone Crusher they call it a Bone Crusher cuz it's deep enough
to penetrate the bones every time Robertson got into trouble more years were added to his
sentence he got caught up in some situations at different prisons where they said he had done he had stabbed
someone he caught more time trying to escape more time when they took him from the jail to the courthouse I believe he
took the officer's gun and was going to shoot him he caught more time he ended up
life everything is running consecutive I have to quickly Envision this in my mind
as how many years this kid is looking at and nothing stops him it seems like criminal activity became a norm for him
most inmates go to prison and they just do their time and go home but you have your
exceptions and typically the common denominator would be that they have antisocial personality disorder and or
their Psychopaths especially if they are the world's most dangerous criminals as Robertson's violence
escalated so did the punishments he's a threat to officers they can't control him look look what
he's doing he's a threat to inmates because he's fighting with them and basically he's a threat to himself
because sooner or later he's going to get his when inmates start to fight officers have to break it up it's not
always an easy task and you can get hurt then he's going to be reviewed for close
management because he is in danger in 1988 James Robertson was sent to close management also known as
CM close management inmates they're on 23-hour lockdown with 1 hour of recreation in a secured perimeter area
also surrounded by razor wire the inmates were fed through a food slot you might have inmates in there
that have committed aggravated battery on Law Enforcement Officers assaults on Law Enforcement Officers rape all all
kinds but they can't walk the compound because of the danger they possess to other inmates or
officers so basically it is confinement for 23 hours in a 6x8 cell the only saving
grace I guess for them is the fact that they're not sharing that cell with another
inmate there is no television there are typically no books there are typically nothing to occupy their time and so that
gives inmates a lot of time to engage in maladaptive behaviors and more criminal
activity such as using drugs such as fighting such as plotting such as trying to manipulate so he was probably fueled
by anger probably decided that he was not going to ever do the right thing and just figured it was the perfect
environment for him to carry on with his Psychopathic and criminal Tendencies once released from close management
Robertson was usually sent back after breaking more rules this continued for the next 18
years in 2006 he was sent to Charlotte Correctional Institution I worked at Charlotte
Correctional Institution until 2021 Charlotte Correctional was a Maximum Security Prison although
Charlotte was one of the cleanest prisons that I had been at the heat was unbearable and the inmates got showered
three times a week so you can imagine walking into a quad this stench would just hit you was like
being in a sewer at the time he went to Charlotte County in 2006 he was already at that
time 43 and he was looking at years more of custody if you add up all these years
consecutively I'd have to get a calculator out as soon as he arrived Robertson was
put into close management again the noise was constantly yelling banging hollering at each other foul words most
of the noise from CM was at night they were up all night long banging yelling all night long so during
the day it was noisy but at night it was even worse the years of close management had
taken a toll on James Robertson we have a lot of mental health in the prison system if you aren't having problems
when you go in the system you will have problems if you've got a long drawn out sentence you
will Robertson also had a drug problem when somebody is addicted to substances they are more likely to engage in
high-risk behaviors as a direct result of those substances as well as an attempt to get money for those
substances being a forensic mental health nurse is taking care of inmates who are on psychotropic drugs a nurse
that takes care of the mentally insane and mentally challenged people in the prison
system James Robertson was running my patience his anger was just unbelievable he was a big man to begin with he had
his passive aggressive behavior with us he had been on every drug crack LSD cocaine marijuana
K2 he had been on everything in his life in the system everything you name it he
was on it having been in the highest level of close management for many years James
Robertson was eventually moved to a lower level known as cm3 cm3 they have a cellmate it's a
gradual increase of Freedom so to speak from Lockdown 237 between all the offenses that he
committed in the prison the fact that he was in cm3 was kind of a miracle because it's a
gradual step towards release on to the compound with general population but even if it's cm3 you are
still confined this is a guy who spent maybe 20 years in close management custody and you reach a Breaking
Point it was too much for Robert he made his ultimate wish clear to anyone that asked James always told me I
hate it here I'm going to be on the row because you people treat me like a dog like an animal I hate close management I
want to be on the road and just quiet I don't want to go open population and I'm
sick of close management so that was his ultimate goal was to be on death row I think Robertson wanted to die and
maybe I'm wrong but when he said I want to make a statement I want them to take me seriously maybe in the back of his
mind the death penalty now they're going to take me seriously I did it and I died
but personally if he really wanted to die he could have killed himself I think he was a
coward while in cm3 James Robertson met his new cmate 52-year-old Frank Frank C was a sex offender and I believe
he was close to being released he really didn't like Frank cart I don't think he
liked the idea that he was a sex offender there's a code in prison they hate pedopiles and he told them do not
put a pedophile in myself and unfortunately Frank Hart was a pedophile and when they put him in James's cell he
realized that this was his way out he was going to kill him on December 10th 2008 James
Robertson decided it was the moment to act on his plan they're alone in a Cell he's been
in close management enough to know the routine of cell checks the breakfast comes and it goes
to the food slot James Robertson ate his breakfast and Hart's breakfast and officer came in to do the
cell check just to make sure everything is okay and of course things were not okay and I got a call from one of the
nurses that was passing meds and James had given her a note and said don't bother to give Frank Hart his medicine I
killed him yesterday James Robertson had strangled his cmate Frank Hart to death
the night before James Robertson took socks and he tied them together he did the deed he strangled and made
[Music] heart after being moved to a less strict level of close management James
Robertson had attacked and killed his cellmate at the first opportunity when we got Frank har up to the medical
Department in our emergency room I saw the dental floss around his neck and he had first choked him with the dental
floss and then he finished with a sock and that was the day before this was not a quick and easy
murder this was something that was torturous Robertson later on stated that he had murdered Mr Hart because he was a
sex offender which we all know sex offenders tend to be low on the totem pole and Correctional Facilities however
I'm not convinced that that's really the reason Mr Robertson murdered Mr Hart what I believe is that he was a
convenient Target but at the end of the day Mr Robertson was going to murder whoever was going to be the most
convenient for him to get sent to death row James Robertson was now facing a murder
conviction I personally never had an inmate tell me they wish they were on death row like in the case of James
Robertson but I have had inmates tell me that they wouldn't mind killing their cellmate to have single cell status
which means being alone in their cell I always knew that he wanted to be on death
row I just never knew what he was going to do or when it was going to happen but
it didn't surprised me with him especially with James cuz he was adamant it was funny because the next day we
were transferring Frank Hart to another prison but I don't believe that James knew
that usually the inmates know everything they know it before we know it Robertson was charged with
murder and sent to Charlotte County Jail to await sentencing my name is Barry moly and I
am a former Corrections Deputy with the Charlotte County Sheriff's Department basically you know uh care custody and
control of inmates I would go in there we were a direct supervision facility which means we were directly in with the
inade population Barry amoli was working at Charlotte County Jail in October 2009
when James Robertson was transferred there for hearings on his murder charge Robertson was back in the highest
level of close management cm1 James Robertson was at an elevated custody level with us not somebody who
could be around other inmates or put in general population um he was known to be
a violent offender he was cm1 close management a completely different set of rules than the open population inmates
in the regular pods uh the inmates in his particular area most of them were looking at a long prison sentence they
got their hour of recreation several times a week they got their showers but they were
confined Barry amole knew James Robertson from the various periods he had been incarcerated at the
jail James Robertson was an individual among a bunch of characters and he was different he was an institutionalized
person who'd been in prison for a very long time he didn't want problems that he didn't need he didn't create a lot of
issues he was quiet though he's very respectful to me James Robertson was charged with
second deegree murder but fired various defense lawyers because he wanted to be charged with first deegree murder and be
sent to death row he had about seven attorneys I think I I I lost count he wanted to be put to death because he's
had enough of this life behind the door for all these years and he's just tired of
it most inmates do not want to go to death row they don't want to be put to death however there is this rumor around
prisons that death row is very cushy he wanted to go to death row because he he wanted to get away from everybody and
death row is quieter death row is smaller he doesn't have to deal with all the things that are going on in close
management ultimately he just wanted to be out of this life James it always seemed to me that
he had something in mind I really do feel like he had a very dangerous thought process that was constantly
going in his mind he was always analyzing he was always looking he was quiet and you know the quiet ones are
sometimes the most dangerous so wasn't the biggest strongest wasn't the one who was going to kick the door off the
hinges and come get you but you'll make a mistake and he'll figure a away and and he's going to accomplish what he
wants to accomplish Robertson was still searching for an opportunity to escalate his
sentence so this is why I walked in the facility December 19th 2011 and began my
shift I worked the maximum segregation unit which was where James Robertson was they are people that would kill you as
soon as you opened your mouth if you said something wrong if they weren't behind the gate it's not something that
you want to be exposed to it's something that you have to be trained for and if you're not you're going to end up
dead James knocked on his door and asked me to empty his garbage when he asked me
to do that typically we take the garbage through the food flap um but he started
spilling everywhere and making a mess so I just without thinking put my key in and opened his door so he wouldn't make
a mess as soon as I put the key in and opened the door James rushed the door attempted to push it open I tried to
stop him from coming out of the cell but it was too late he was already too far out so at that point the fight was
on James had had fashioned two long pieces of metal that were pointy he had sharpened them he had used a t-shirt to
Fashion handles on them and then BL wrist straps so that they were attached to him and they were coming through his
hands kind of like Wolverine he stabbed me in the arm the first time as he was trying to get out
the door it was on at that point I knew I wasn't going to be able to force him back into the cell by pushing the door
and I was going to have to let him out and face him face to face asked me for my keys which I told
him no and clipped them into my belt I was giving him veral commands like we're trying to do stop what are
you doing you know what is this I knew he wasn't going to stop so as soon as he went for another punch I was able to
punch him a couple of times I think it made him a little dizzy I think I hit him good enough that it
took the wind out of his sails and he kind of slumped and then right at that time the officer that I was working with
she came to the door and she opened the door and so I kind of switch gears it's like well I do not want her in here
involved this guy has two knives attached to his hand so I ran to the door I pushed her out the door we
secured the door back down it wasn't until after and I could see that I was bleeding out of the two
places where I had been stabbed Barry amolly was taken to hospital and treated for his
injuries which luckily were not life-threatening I I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shocked and that's part of
the complacency that is so dangerous in this business but the training that I had done here and that I was given with
the Sheriff's Department it came into play and it saved my [Music] life an investigation into the incident
clarified Robertson's intentions I made up my mind before I even opened up the door I made up my
mind if he tries to Buck I'm just going to stab a few times let him know I'm serious you know I wasn't ke you know I
mean he didn't give me no choice I don't want to kill a guard I just wanted to kill an inmate so I can go death
roll James Robertson was charged with attempted second-degree murder and attempted robbery with a deadly
weapon he wanted to kill another inmate that was house several cells down from him that inmate had been very vocal
towards James and was unknown sexual predator and James didn't really care for those type of individuals James's
plan was to steal my keys from me at all costs if that meant killing me it's what
it was then go down and get him in his cell and stab him to death so you're going to continue to kill inmates so you
get death R that's right you know and I meant what I said James Robertson had been on a
mission to be sent to death row now he had killed a fellow inmate he was facing new
charges I was a member of the Florida Department of Corrections for a period of 23 years and during that time I did
the pre sentence investigation for inmate James Robertson Robertson who was at the
Charlotte County Sheriff's Office jail awaiting sentencing on account of first-degree murder of inmate Frank
Hart the pre-sentence investigation is basically a report submitted to the court to show the judge everything about
this defendant without the prenten investigation all the judge knows about the defendant is what he has read on the
arrest report and the prior record the judge doesn't know anything socioeconomically he doesn't know how he
was raised his mental health alcohol and drug abuse substance abuse and these are
important things when I pulled his records I found his behavior from the time he was 12
years old he was ungovernable he was intolerable he did not seem to ever stop stop engaging in
violence he did not seem to ever stop engaging in rule breaking from the time he was a juvenile
James Robertson was screaming for mental health counseling nothing seemed to affect him consecutive sentence after
consecutive sentence after consecutive he knew there's no way he's going to see the light of day and yet he
continues he had no childhood he became an adult at 12 and that's not an excuse cuz I know a lot of
people that have never had a childhood and came from broken home that's not an excuse that's a choice so that was his
choice he chose that road he chose those cards and he played them I would say that Mr Robertson is
institutionalized just by the fact that he's been incarcerated Essen his whole adult life and he continued to reoffend
that being said I don't think Mr Robertson would have been any different out in the community I think he would
have continued to reoffend whether he was in prison or not he seems to be a complete psychopath by the very
definition of psychopathy and so the environment really was not going to change whether or not Mr Robertson was
going to engage in criminal behaviors he was very angry and up with the whole situation he he had had about enough of
this in December 2012 Mike gotfried interviewed James Robertson for this pre-sentence report he was 49 years old
when I interviewed him spent 31 years in prison I sit like I'm sitting facing you
he's there's a table between us and he Shackled legs and hands and he's a dangerous kind of guy it might sound
strange but he was very forthcoming he didn't try to hide anything he admitted to everything he
did I know he murdered his cellmate in cm3 Frank Hart sometimes you can look at a person see I like eye contact because
there's signals movement of the eyes twitching he didn't show any signs of wrongdoing
Robertson had killed Frank Hart for just one reason he wanted to get out of close
management and be put on death row James had been in prison for most of his adult
life I think that he was upset that he didn't get the death penalty um for you know his previous crimes and I think he
had just had enough I have a list of all the institutions he's been in and it was
close management here close management there and that was the thing that was killing
him Frank har was not the nice guy of the world but he had siblings he had a family in fact when I spoke with his
family they wanted retribution family is family now you can't bring the victim back but someone
has to pay a price and here's a person who wanted to pay that price he's facing first-degree murder
charges the only thing is whether he's going to go to prison for the rest of his life life without the possibility of
parole or whether he's going to get the death [Music] penalty after I completed my report my
conclusion was there is no environment and there are no resources that will ever assist this offender in
Rehabilitation the recommendation was for the death penalty my conclusion was based on willful kill
or homicide that the death penalty was Justice on December 18th 2012 James Robertson was called to Charlotte County
Courthouse to discover his fate he came in he was Shackled hands legs and it was a SWAT team that brought
him in I saw him adjudicated guilty sentenced to the death penalty and I didn't see a look of
disbelief a look of fear it's almost as if he knew this was coming and it finally
arrived in February 2013 Robertson was transferred to death row at Union Correctional Institution in
Florida Mr Robertson was The Perfect Storm to become somebody who was going to ultimately end up on death row
James Robertson was always very respectful to me and I never had any idea that James Robertson would attack
me it was very surprised that was being complacent I changed my whole life since then because
of this incident James Robertson had finally got his wish and is now on death row but it
took the death of a fellow prisoner to get him there he never had a break but there's a lot of people out there that
never had a break but I go back to your choices that you made he made that choice no one else
did James will not be put to death because there's so many others ahead of him that he will die probably of natural
causes and he got what he wanted simple as that he made the choice he got it and
that's it Mr Robertson is probably one of the most dangerous inmates in the United States prison system for the
simple fact that anyone can be a Target he's going to be a danger to inmates he's going to be a danger to staff he's
going to be a danger to correction officers he's going to be in danger with anyone he comes into contact with
because he's so focused on serving his own needs that anybody can be collateral damaged death throw is not a punishment
anymore you've already been punished you know that eventually you're going to get
an execution dat you're just waiting for your date that's your difference it's [Music]
[Music] over [Music]

James Robertson is considered one of the most volatile, dangerous men in the U.S. prison system. But how did he get there? Roberts's notoriously sinister smile and shocking desire to commit enough crimes to secure a place on Death Row have cemented him as one of the World’s Most Evil Prisoners. World’s Most Evil Prisoners is a chilling exploration of the terrifying offenders sentenced to a lifetime behind bars. Locked away, yet still driven by their twisted desires, these inmates delve into acts of torture, abduction, and homicide. Prepare to confront the criminals from the darkest facets of humanity.

Brief Summary

James Robertson's violent prison history culminates in a cellmate's murder, leading to his death sentence.

Key points

The Dangerous Mind of James Robertson. Robertson's psychopathy and violent tendencies make him one of the most feared inmates.
A Chilling Confrontation. Robertson's threat to his cellmate reveals his violent nature.
James Robertson: A Life of Crime. From a troubled childhood to a life sentence, James Robertson's journey is chilling.
The Brutality of Prison Life. Charlotte Correctional Institute is described as hellish, filled with violence and despair.
The Descent into Madness. Robertson's long history of violence leads to a life sentence.
James Robertson's Deadly Plan. James Robertson murdered his cellmate to escape close management and reach death row.

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