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A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.
The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases ...
Attorneys for death row inmate Robert Roberson have filed a formal objection to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to set an execution date, citing ongoing legal proceedings and compelling ...
The Texas Supreme Court has spared the life of death row inmate Robert Roberson, granting a rare stay of execution as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection.. The Supreme ...
Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Thursday after his attorneys were told Judge Alfonso Charles, the Tenth Administrative Judicial Region presiding judge ...
Texas is ready to execute Robert Roberson on Thursday despite strong evidence that he didn't shake his 2-year-old baby daughter to death in 2002, and a new subpoena of the inmate himself.. Shaken ...
The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday halted the execution of Robert Roberson hours after it was set to take place, capping a flurry of litigation filed that same day by Texas state lawmakers in a ...
Robert Roberson's "shaken baby syndrome" case also went to the Supreme Court. In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on what some ...
Texas death row inmate's testimony postponed 03:24. Texas lawmakers were expected to hear testimony at the state Capitol on Monday from Robert Roberson, a death row inmate whose execution was ...
Robert Roberson’s execution was halted by judges. What’s next for him? Texas state lawmakers subpoenaed Roberson to testify in a bid to block his execution in a case centered on “shaken baby ...
AUSTIN – Robert Roberson, the Texas man whose execution was halted by the state Supreme Court, is expected to testify before a legislative panel on Monday. Roberson was set to become the first ...
Late Monday, attorneys for Robert Roberson filed a successive habeas application and an emergency motion for a stay of execution in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.. Then, on Tuesday morning ...