A shield statute allows the state to withhold a telling piece of information: where Texas is finding a hard-to-get execution ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the ...

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

Robert Roberson's execution is halted under the state's "junk science" law that allows courts to re-examine convictions based ...

Cedrick Ricks, 51, has been set for execution on March 11, 2026, for the 2013 capital murders of his ex-girlfriend, Roxann ...

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The order was praised by Texas legislators who have questioned the science behind the death row inmate’s 2003 capital murder ...

A Texas appeals court on Thursday halted the scheduled execution of an autistic man convicted in a problematic "shaken baby" ...

Lawyers for Robert Roberson questioned evidence about whether he shook his 2-year-old daughter to death. The state’s highest ...

Among those convinced of Robert Roberson's innocence are some conservative legislators, the lead investigator in the case, ...

Texas’ top criminal court has again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death in a shaken baby case.