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As a legal chess match continues over a death row inmate’s life, the Texas Supreme Court has weighed in, saying a legislative committee that delayed Robert Roberson’s execution date did not have the power to stop a scheduled sentence.
This is the latest salvo in a legal battle between committee members and the Texas Attorney General and Governor’s offices.
Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting convicted for killing his 2-year-old daughter. He maintained his innocence and in October 2024, his sentence was put on a temporary pause.
As tensions continue amid a delayed execution for death row inmate, Robert Roberson, new allegations from a Texas lawmaker suggest his attorney overstepped by showing up to a jury foreman’s home.
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will be praying for another miracle as he prepares to testify before lawmakers after his life was temporarily spared from his scheduled execution last week.
A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection.
The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his April 5 execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death.
A five-member Oklahoma board has decided that a man convicted in the shotgun slayings of an elderly couple in eastern Oklahoma in 2003 and sentenced to die should not be spared from the death sentence.
In this episode of The Evidence Room, we'll look into the case of Carl Wayne Buntion, who was sentenced to death for murdering Houston Police Officer James Irby in 1990.
KPRC 2 Investigates takes you into the Harris County archives to examine the case of Karla Faye Tucker, the Houston woman executed for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary in the 1980's
The family of Juan Balderas, along with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, held a press conference Monday to announce “Making an Exoneree: Juan Balderas” and launched a renewed campaign to exonerate Balderas from Texas death row, according to a release.
