HE KILLED HIS CELLMATE TO BE EXECUTED: Florida Puts James Robertson To Death | #WeirdDarkNEWS

In 2014, Ohio killed Dennis McGuire with a drug pair no one in the country had used in an execution, Oklahoma laid a sheet over Clayton Lockett's needle while the drugs went into his tissue, and Arizona gave Joseph Wood fifteen doses as a reporter counted about 640 gasps. Then come 23 more lethal injections from 1985 to 2010, among them Joseph Cannon, whose needle came out of his arm in Texas, and Bennie Demps, who said in Florida, "They butchered me back there."

Mary Mallon insisted she had never had typhoid in her life, and in March 1907, when a health department doctor brought police and an ambulance to the Park Avenue house where she cooked, Mary met them at the door with a long kitchen fork.

On a stormy night with the phone lines down and her baby barely breathing, Madeline Hunter drags a blazing log out of the fireplace without knowing why, and only afterward remembers the Greek myth she'd lectured on that very morning, in which a mother did the same thing to keep her son alive. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Bough” (January 24, 1979) ***WD 00:48:00.567 = Jeff Regan, “The Guy From Gower Gulch” (November 13, 1948) ***WD 01:18:47.691 = The Key, “The Cellar” (1956) ****WD 01:45:34.182 = Lights Out, “Dream” (March 16, 1943) 02:14:59.018 = Macabre, “Crystalline Man” (January 01, 1962) ***WD 02:44:23.318 = Philip Marlowe, ‘Cloak of Kamehameha” (May 16, 1950) 03:14:50.811 = Let George Do It, “Ghost On Bliss Terrace” (August 16, 1948) ***WD 03:45:36.781 = The Black Mass, “Jolly Corner” (November 28, 1966) ***WD 04:25:55.017 = Michael Shayne, “Missing Body” (August 06, 1945) ***WD 04:56:57.079 = Beyond The Green Door, ‘Theodore Kane Buried Alive” (1966) 05:00:33.353 = Show Close

A silent-film director is found shot in his bungalow with every lamp in the house still burning, and a private eye from the east is paid to find the letters before the police do.

The drug turned to gel in John Wayne Gacy's IV tube, Christina Riggs took the needles in her wrists, and Florida pushed them through both of Angel Diaz's veins. In Ohio, Joseph Clark lifted his head off the gurney to say "it don't work", Christopher Newton took a bathroom break during the vein search, and Romell Broom went back to his cell alive after two hours of needles.