In a last-hour ruling Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court halted Roberson’s execution scheduled for that evening.

A frantic and unprecedented rush by Texas lawmakers to successfully block the controversial execution of death row inmate ...

While the execution of a Texas man was temporarily put on hold this week, more than 2,000 people remain on death row across ...

The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the ...

Robert Roberson came within 90 minutes of execution before winning a delay in an extraordinary legal twist. Roberson, ...

Texas' use of the death penalty has always been complicated. Here's why the Robert Roberson case took it to a whole new level ...

Attorneys for Richard Moore, scheduled to die on Nov. 1, filed a lawsuit questioning the governor's impartiality after ...

Texas high court halts the execution of a man whose conviction was tied to shaken baby syndrome diagnosis. Supporters say it ...

The last-minute decision comes in response to a legal maneuver in which a House committee voted to subpoena Roberson after ...

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where ...