Robert O’Neal was executed by the State of Missouri for a prison murder
According to court documents Robert O’Neal was serving a life sentence for the murder of 78-year-old Ralph Roscoe Sharick. While incarcerated at the Missouri State Penitentiary when he would stab to death Arthur Dade
Robert O’Neal would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Robert O’Neal would be executed by lethal injection on December 6 1995
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Robert O’Neal Case
On February 2, 1984 inmates from the Special Management Unit at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Missouri were released to lunch. During the inmate movement, correction officers observed inmate Rodney Stewart approach inmate Arthur Dade. Stewart was carrying an ice cream container such as those purchased in the inmate commissary. Stewart threw a liquid contained in the ice cream carton into Dade’s face. As Dade shielded his eyes from the liquid, inmate Lloyd Schlup approached Dade from behind and grabbed Dade’s hands. While Schlup was holding Dade, inmate Robert Earl O’Neal ran forward and stabbed Dade with an ice pick type weapon four times in the chest penetrating his hearting and lungs.
As correctional officers pulled Stewart off Dade, Robert O’Neal ran to a nearby window, broke the window pane and threw the weapon out the window. O’Neal then went to a nearby sink where he washed blood off his hands and arms. Dade ran a short distance from the scene where he collapsed and died. Before O’Neal’s arrest, correctional officers found blood stained clothing in a bathroom marked with O’Neal’s prison issued numbers. Blood stains were also found on O’Neal’s clothing, the broken window and the sink where O’Neal washed his hands. When arrested, O’Neal was observed to have a severe laceration to the hand he used to stab Dade.
