Rowland Barnes was murdered by a man on trial for what crime?
Rowland Barnes Rowland W. Barnes (April 25, 1940 – March 11, 2005) was a Fulton County, Georgia, United States, Superior Court Judge. He oversaw the 2003 trial of hockey star Dany Heatley, who was charged with vehicular homicide after the death of teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident. Judge Barnes was shot to death in his courtroom by Brian Nichols in 2005.
Roy Michael Roberts Roy Michael "Hog" Roberts (December 18, 1952 – 10 March 1999) was executed in Missouri by lethal injection, for the murder of a correctional officer named Tom Jackson in Missouri's Moberly Correctional Center in July 1983. A 2005 investigation was opened to investigate the possibility of Roberts' innocence.