Lawmakers asked the courts on Thursday to stop Roberson’s execution so that he could appear for testimony before the ...

Robert Roberson III had known for months he was scheduled to die Thursday afternoon. A lethal dose of pentobarbital would ...

Robert Roberson will testify before the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence of the Texas House of Representatives.

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely ...

Texas high court halts the execution of a man whose conviction was tied to shaken baby syndrome diagnosis. Supporters say it ...

The last-minute decision comes in response to a legal maneuver in which a House committee voted to subpoena Roberson after ...

The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the ...

Courts in Texas kept blocking Robert Roberson on procedural grounds but never looked at how “shaken baby” science has evolved ...

The court halted the execution after Texas lawmakers subpoenaed the death row inmate the night before he was set to be put to ...

The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

The stay came mere hours before Robert Robertson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.