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 ...

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

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

Perhaps even more unusual is the fact that Paxton’s office is involved at all. The attorney general’s office has taken over ...

The Texas Attorney General’s office has taken over the Roberson case from the Anderson County District Attorney and has requested Roberson be immediately added to the death row calendar.

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 ...

HOUSTON -- A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the ...

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.

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

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 ...