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

A death row inmate who was scheduled to be executed last night will instead testify before state lawmakers on Monday.

With his execution on hold, Robert Roberson is set to testify at a Texas House hearing about his conviction, which was based ...

Judges seeking appointments to the federal bench, wealthy Republicans hoping for ambassadorships and criminals who wanted pardons were among the big spenders at Donald Trump’s Washington, D.

Texas’s Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who was set to die on Thursday, hours before the convicted killer’s ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted the controversial execution of Robert Roberson on Thursday night after an unorthodox move by Texas lawmakers.

The Texas Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Robert Roberson, siding with a Texas House committee that argued that this is a civil matter and not a criminal matter. Updated: 9:46 p.m.

In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal ...

A Travis County judge granted a Texas House committee’s last-minute temporary restraining order request against the state ...

A Texas House Committee voted to subpoena Roberson after his scheduled death amid a flurry of eleventh-hour legal maneuvers.