Whether you support the death penalty or not, most can agree the ultimate punishment should require impeccable integrity and absolute proof.  Everyone from the detectives, to the defense attorneys, to the prosecutors, to the jury, to the judge and even the witnesses, who are sometimes involved in the crime – all need to have unquestionable integrity and lack all prejudice.  That’s the only way it could work.

That level of blanket integrity and lack of prejudice doesn’t exist.  We don’t have the ability to judge the moral character and integrity levels of all the individuals involved.  Knowing that, incorporating a death penalty in our system results in innocent people living on death row and some being executed.  

Terry Robinson has been on death row for twenty years and has always maintained his innocence. 

This post will begin a new catagory on this site and will be dedicated to taking a closer look at why Terry Robinson was sentenced to death. Comments and private messages are welcome and highly encouraged. Unfortunately, once someone hears a person is sentenced to death – they assume something happened in court to prove that, and the public never hears what actually took place in the courtroom. In Mr. Robinson’s situation the prosecution presented a case, and the defense rested.

In this country, we are innocent until ‘proven’ guilty.   Terry Robinson has always maintained his innocence, inluding having no knowledge of what happened at the Pizza Inn on May 16, 1999, in Wilson, NC. 

Following is the voluntary statement of Ronald Bullock, the man who said Terry Robinson committed murder, given at 1:35 a.m. on May 18, 1999:

Mr. Bullock states that he and Duck walked to the Pizza Inn last night.  Mr. Bullock states that he had a .380 automatic, chrome in color.  Mr. Bullock states that they went there to rob the place. Mr. Bullock states that they ran in the place and he stopped at the drive-thru cash register.  Mr. Bullock states that Duck ran out of his sight.  He heard one shot.  Mr. Bullock states that he ran to the back of the woods and he changed clothes. Mr. Bullock stated he then went one way, and Duck went the other.  Mr. Bullock states that he lost his gun.  Mr. Bullock states that the gun had some bullets in the magazine but not in the chamber or head.

And so began Terry Robinson’s journey to death row.   He recently told me going to prison might have saved his life, as he wasn’t living the life he should have been at the time.  He also expressed that he viewed the man who made the above statement as a son and still does in some ways.

I tried to contact Mr. Bullock repeatedly before I began this project, hoping to learn more about what happened that night, to no avail.

There wasn’t a lot presented during the trial, but it will all be looked at here.  

During the trial, Mr. Bullock had a lot more to say about the events that took place that entire day, and went into detail regarding Terry Robinson and his activities on the day of the crime, Sunday, May 16, 1999 – activities Terry Robinson denies. If anybody remembers seeing Terry Robinson or Ronald Bullock at any time on Sunday, May 16, 1999, please contact me.

kimberleycarter@verizon.net