It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who ...

Robert Roberson III had known for months he was scheduled to die Thursday afternoon. A lethal dose of pentobarbital would ...

The Texas man will testify before the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence of the Texas House of Representatives.

Following an extraordinary legal battle and the Texas Supreme Court issuing a stay of execution Thursday, death row inmate ...

Robert Roberson, who had been set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

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

Texas legislators held a daylong hearing Wednesday examining the evidence and hearing expert testimony in the case of Robert ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was ...

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.

Vanessa Potkin of The Innocence Project says a subpoena from the Texas state legislature has saved Roberson’s life — for the ...

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection.

Courts in Texas kept blocking Robert Roberson on procedural grounds but never looked at how “shaken baby” science has evolved ...