Roy Michael "Hog" Roberts (December 18, 1952 – March 10, 1999) was executed in Missouri by lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center,[1] for assisting the murder of a correctional officer named Tom Jackson in Missouri's Moberly Correctional Center in July 1983.[2][3]

A 2005 investigation was opened to investigate the possibility of Roberts' innocence.[4] No physical evidence connected Roberts to the crime. Four eyewitnesses, including three corrections officers, testified that Roberts had participated in the murder, while nine witnesses, including another corrections officer, had testified that Roberts had been elsewhere at the moment of the stabbing.[5]

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  1. ^ "Roberts executed". The Kansas City Star. March 11, 1999. p. 67. Retrieved April 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Alter, Jonathan. "How Sure Is Sure Enough? Missouri Executed Roy Roberts-But There Are Still Haunting Questions about His Guilt". Newsweek. March 22, 1999.
  3. ^ "A Reckoning on Death Row". Newsweek. July 2, 2000.
  4. ^ Missouri death sentence case gets another look. NBC News (2005-08-05). Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
  5. ^ Huff, C. Ronald. Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice. Temple University Press. p. 109.

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