Texas execution marks latest death penalty case to move ... - CBS News
23 hours ago · Texas is planning to execute a death row inmate Thursday whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny, as doubts linger over whether his decades-old criminal conviction would stand up in court today ...
Texas execution tied to 'shaken baby syndrome' death is in ... - NBC News
1 day ago · Texas prepares first U.S. execution tied to 'shaken baby syndrome' death. Robert Roberson is set to die for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. The case underscores broader questions about ...
Court of Criminal Appeals rejects bid to delay Texas execution
15 hours ago · The condemned man, listed in prison records as Robert Leslie Roberson III, Inmate No. 999442, has been on Texas death row since Feb. 21, 2003. He was sentenced to death in the killing of his 2 ...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas - Dallas News
1 day ago · Patrick Murphy is on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. (Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) Texas inmate Robert Roberson, facing execution tonight, would be the sixth person put to ...
Texas committee approves subpoena for death row inmate ahead …
2 days ago · Advocates of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson are pleading for the state to halt its plans to execute him Thursday for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter – a crime Roberson says he did ...
New hearing for Texas death row inmate scheduled before …
1 day ago · AUSTIN, Texas — In a race against the clock, a Travis County judge will hear arguments in the case to keep a Texas death row inmate alive. Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed Thursday ...
Texas judge grants request to delay execution of Robert Roberson
1 day ago · A first-of-its-kind Hail Mary legal maneuver to delay the impending execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson succeeded — at least temporarily — after a Travis County state district ...
Alabama to execute man for killing 5 in what he ... - Associated Press News
1 day ago · Alabama prepared Thursday to put to death a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his execution to go forward. Derrick Dearman, 36, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama.
Upcoming Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
Nov 17, 2017 · Last updated on October 16, 2024. to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
Texas executes three-decade death row inmate Brent Brewer
Nov 9, 2023 · Texas executes Brent Brewer, who spent three decades on death row, for murder of Amarillo man. Brewer lost a clemency appeal earlier this week, despite one of his jurors pleading that his...