The Texas Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Robert Roberson, siding with a Texas House committee that argued that ...
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 III was originally set to be executed Thursday for the 2003 capital murder conviction in the death of ...
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 ...
In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal ...
: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals shot down a last-minute motion by a Travis County judge to halt the execution of Robert ...
House members were successful in halting the execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III. The Supreme Court of Texas granted a stay late Thursday night.
Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Roberson was scheduled for execution in October after being convicted in the death of his infant ...