Sammy Roberts was executed by the State of South Carolina for a triple murder
According to court documents Sammy Roberts and accomplices would rob a gas station where he would kidnap three people: Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause and Louis Cakley, who were driven to a remote location where they were fatally shot
Sammy Roberts would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Sammy Roberts was executed by lethal injection on September 25 1998
Sammy Roberts Case
Sometime around midnight, June 18, 1980, Bill Spain and Butch Krause were closing for the night the service station where they worked. They were robbed of One Thousand Ninety-Six and 03/100 ($1,096.03) Dollars, taken from the station in North Charleston to a secluded spot in Berkeley County, and shot to death. In the early morning hours of June 19, 1980, Louis Cakley, a service station attendant in Moncks Corner was robbed of Four Hundred Twenty-Six and 11/100 *577 ($426.11) Dollars, taken to another secluded spot in Berkeley County, and shot to death.
The bodies of the three men were found several days after the murders. Investigations began immediately and continued for several months. On October 24, 1980, upon information given to the authorities by Danny Ray Coker, an accomplice in these crimes, appellants were arrested for the armed robbery, kidnapping, and murder of the three men. Coker was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony.
https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/1982/21808-1.html
