Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, on Sept. 27. Roberson was scheduled for execution after being convicted in the death of his infant daughter.

The New York Times reports that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton described the lawsuit as the state’s first enforcement action under a 2023 state law. Other news from around the nation comes from New ...

It became an 11th-hour turn of events for Robert Roberson, who would have become the first person in the U.S. to be executed ...

Robert Roberson had been set to die Thursday for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. Among those who believe he is innocent is the former lead detective on the case.

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was ...

The stay came mere hours before Robert Roberson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night's scheduled execution of a man who would have become the ...

An unusual legal move has bought more time for a Texas man who was set to be executed Thursday evening.

If he’s put to death, Robert Roberson III, who is autistic, will become the first person in the country to be executed in a ...

In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal ...

A last-ditch effort to stop Texas from executing an autistic man in a shaken baby case stretched into the final hours Thursday night as one judge granted an extraordinary maneuver by lawmakers to ...