Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

The motion escalates a tense standoff between Paxton and a bipartisan Texas House committee, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify at the Capitol on Friday. Audio recording is automated for ...

Jeff Leach listen as Josh Burns, a ‘shaken baby’ exoneree, testifies during a Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence meeting about death row inmate Robert Roberson III at the Texas ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be ...

investigators noted Roberson's lack of emotion during his arrest. Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing ...

Texas Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, center, and Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, right, listen to testimony during a committee hearing on the death row case of Robert Roberson, Monday, Oct. 21 ...

Robert Roberson, who was convicted by an East Texas jury of murdering his two-year-old daughter in 2002, was set to die by execution on Oct. 17. He would have been the first person in the U.S. to ...

Recommended Videos 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 ...

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 ...