Attorneys for death row inmate Robert Roberson have filed a formal objection to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to set an execution date, citing ongoing legal proceedings and compelling ...

A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Thursday after his attorneys were told Judge Alfonso Charles, the Tenth Administrative Judicial Region presiding judge ...

Robert Roberson at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Tex., on Dec. 19. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project) ...

Texas is ready to execute Robert Roberson on Thursday despite strong evidence that he didn't shake his 2-year-old baby daughter to death in 2002, and a new subpoena of the inmate himself.. Shaken ...

Robert Roberson's attorneys have filed an objection to the Texas Attorney General's request for an execution date, citing new evidence supporting his claim of actual innocence and arguing that ...

Robert Roberson seeks a new trial for the 2003 conviction of the murder of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. His attorneys are asking for a new trial based on new findings they say debunk ...

Robert Leslie Roberson remains scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday despite all evidence indicating he was wrongfully convicted for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, in 2002.

In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a lower court’s order halting his execution in a ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas — The attorney for Robert Roberson has filed an objection after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked an Anderson County district court to schedule a new execution date.

Attorney General Ken Paxton is requesting a new execution date for Robert Roberson, months after state lawmakers used an eleventh-hour tactic to stall his initial execution. Roberson would be the ...