The nation's first execution of a person convicted in a "shaken baby syndrome" case was halted Thursday when Texas' highest criminal court ruled in the condemned man's favor. Robert Roberson, 58, had ...

Robert Roberson is set to be executed on Oct. 16 after spending more than 20 years on death row Craig Barritt/Getty for Town & Country; CECILE CLOCHERET/AFP via Getty Lester Holt launched a new ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder ...

new video loaded: His Execution Is Days Away. A Detective Says He’s Innocent. transcript This man is days away from being executed for a crime a lot of evidence suggests he did not commit. His name is ...

HOUSTON — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers traveled to Livingston this week to meet with Robert Roberson, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on October 16, as his legal team makes ...

TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will not petition for clemency ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas court's pause of the execution of Robert Roberson just days before he was set to die is likely to raise new arguments and scrutiny over cases that rely on the medical ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Robert Roberson was calm and hopeful as he pondered his mortality and whether he could again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Over 100 people gathered at the Texas Capitol on Saturday, calling on the state to halt the execution of Robert Roberson, who was convicted in 2003 in the death of his 2-year-old ...

A Texas court has again granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long claimed he is innocent in the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis, saying his ...

A death row inmate who was set to become the first person in the country executed in a shaken baby syndrome case was spared for the time being after a Texas criminal appeals court stayed his execution ...