Death Row Inmate Wants to be Executed | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 05.24.25
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🗓️ 25 May 2025
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A South Carolina death row inmate asks the court to let him act as his own lawyer so he can speed up his execution.
A father faces a life sentence for strangling his 5yo daughter on a video call as his girlfriend watched.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Jackie Howard. A South Carolina death row inmate featured in the Netflix series, |
| 0:08.6 | I Am a Killer, asked the court to let him act as his own lawyer so he can speed up his execution. |
| 0:17.1 | James Robertson 51 has spent over two decades on death row, Just days before the state's fifth execution in the past seven months, |
| 0:25.9 | Robertson sent a letter to a federal judge. He says he and his attorney have had a disagreement and adds no ethical attorney will withdraw an appeal that will result in their client's execution. |
| 0:39.1 | So he asks to represent himself. |
| 0:42.1 | His lawyer says he is still reeling from the loss of five fellow inmates, including his best friend, |
| 0:48.2 | who was executed in January. |
| 0:50.2 | The judge orders Robertson undergo a psychiatric evaluation. |
| 0:55.6 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm Jennifer Gould. |
| 1:05.0 | An Indianapolis father faces life without parole after allegedly brutally murdering his five-year-old daughter, |
| 1:12.5 | Zara Arnold, with parts of the horror reportedly witnessed by his girlfriend during a |
| 1:18.7 | prolonged video call. Zachary Arnold, 41, is now charged with murder and neglect in a crime |
| 1:25.2 | so heinous. Prosecutors are vowing to cage him for good. |
| 1:29.6 | The girl's grandmother, O'Tanya Glasgow, spoke to Fox 59 News. |
| 1:33.8 | She shouldn't have never been with him from the get-go. |
| 1:36.7 | They shouldn't have never gave him custody. |
| 1:38.4 | This has been an ongoing thing since she's been born. |
| 1:41.8 | IMPD officers raced to a North LaSalle Street home after Arnold called 911, |
| 1:47.1 | claiming Zara died from a fall downstairs. |
| 1:50.5 | But the little girl's body told a far darker story. |
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