The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to ...

Roberson would be the first person in the US executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. AUSTIN - Texas lawmakers who stopped the execution of Robert Roberson ...

Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be ...

Jeff Leach sit at the dais during a Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence meeting about death row inmate Robert Roberson III at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Friday, Dec. 20 ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

In 2024, Robert Roberson captured national attention and reignited debates about the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty in Texas. While Roberson rightly dominated headlines due to the ...

State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, is a member of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence that intervened in the execution of Robert Roberson. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune Audio ...

A Texas House Committee was left without its key witness on Friday after Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion late Thursday barring death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The office of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has filed a new motion attempting to block Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the state capitol on Friday.

A Texas House committee whose eleventh-hour subpoena of death row inmate Robert Roberson bought him at least three more months to live has again summoned the condemned man to testify at the ...

Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be called "shaken baby syndrome," Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson ...