Why 2 inmates received lethal injection after failed prison escape, murder

PIEDMONT, S.D. — The night that Eric Donald Robert stalked the driver of a 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass was the first crime in a chain of events that would land him on death row. He followed the 18-year-old driver, Briana St. Clair, on her way to work near Blackhawk, South Dakota, before flicking on strobe lights resembling a police squad car from inside his red 1989 Chevrolet pickup truck, according to the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. St. Clair pulled over around 2 a.m. and Robert walked to the driver s side door, telling her he was a plainclothes police officer working narcotics. Eric Donald Robert, days before his sentence for execution was to occur. Contributed / Argus-Leader via Newspapers.com He asked her to perform field-type sobriety tests and then said he needed to search her trunk. She objected. He grabbed her and forced her into the trunk of her car. I put you in here to teach you a lesson, St. Clair said he told her. Robert took $225 from th