Summary of Offense:
Robert Earl Peterson received the death penalty for the August 2005 murder of his stepfather, 64-year-old Roy Bryan Andrews, a retired Jacksonville Sheriff's Office patrolman. Circuit Judge L. Paige Haddock called the violent attack in a Jacksonville cemetery vicious and brutal, made worse by Andrews realizing he was about to die at the hands of a stepson he had supported financially in hopes he might someday get his life straightened out. A jury recommended the death penalty in September 2009 on a 7-5 vote following Peterson's conviction.
Peterson was sentenced to death in Duval County on December 11, 2009.
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