Why Texas Lawmakers Tried To Stop America's First 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Execution
Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be ...
LIVE: Robert Roberson won’t testify before lawmakers after dispute over whether the death row inmate could appear in person
AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) - Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s highly anticipated and unprecedented legislative testimony ...
As a detective, he helped put Robert Roberson on death row. As a minister, he says he got it all wrong.
Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...
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What’s next in Robert Roberson case after he did not appear at 2nd legislative hearing?
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 ...
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Robert Roberson subpoenaed to speak to lawmakers
Death row inmate Robert Roberson has been subpoenaed to talk about the "junk science" law that some say could be used to overturn his conviction. Roberson was scheduled to be executed after he was ...
Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid 'evolving standards of decency'
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
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Texas House panel may never hear Robert Roberson’s testimony after new legal move
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 ...
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State Rep. Jeff Leach asked Texas judge to consider a new Robert Roberson trial in apparent conduct violation
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 ...
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Texas House panel summons death row's Robert Roberson to testify on Friday. Will it work?
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 ...
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Texas House panel subpoenas death row inmate Robert Roberson a second time
A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state's prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder ...
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Why Texas Lawmakers Tried To Stop America's First 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' Execution
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 ...
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What's next in Robert Roberson case after he did not appear at 2nd legislative hearing?
DALLAS -- Time is running out for Texas legislators who want to bring death row inmate Robert Roberson III in person before a House committee investigating his conviction. The next steps in the ...