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 ...

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

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was subpoenaed to testify at a committee hearing on Friday. Lawmakers want to hear testimony from Roberson on Texas' "junk science" law. Roberson was ...

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

Roberson's "shaken baby syndrome ... to be that seeing and hearing from Robert will make it clear to the public that an innocent man sits on death row who is also a gentle soul with a pronounced ...

State lawmakers want death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in 2023, to testify about his case at the state Capitol, but Attorney General Ken Paxton's office ...

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 ...

Steven Nelson says he was a lookout for a robbery that ended in a pastor’s death. He’s set to be killed by the state February 5.

In 2024, Robert Roberson captured national attention and ... two individuals – Randall Mays and Tomas Gallo – from death row last year due to severe intellectual disabilities.

A Texas state lawmaker said Attorney General Ken Paxton has shut down efforts to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify at the Capitol in Austin. Rep. Joe Moody, the Democratic ...