The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Roberson on Thursday morning. The order was issued one week before Roberson's execution was scheduled at the Texas State Penitentiary ...

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 ...

An appeals court has issued a stay of execution for a man who was set to become the first in the nation to be put to death over shaken baby syndrome. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued the ...

Update: On Thursday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Roberson's execution that was scheduled for next week and sent the case back to the trial court. Read more here. Robert Roberson was ...

Republican officials from Carroll County sent a letter to the Trump administration Tuesday, asking the president to “exercise the full weight, influence and authority of your office” to stop the ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

Yesterday, NBC’s Dateline began airing a four-part podcast about Robert Roberson’s case. The Last Appeal is hosted by Lester Holt, and Roberson’s attorney says today that it’s already given a very ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday 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 conviction ...

When Gretchen Sween hopped on a Zoom call with a gaggle of reporters at noon, she was still not quite sure her client had been informed that the court issued a stay of execution. A week away from ...

Lawyers for Robert Roberson, the condemned man on Texas’ death row who faces execution next week, say the first episode of a “Dateline” podcast about his case contains “highly relevant” evidence that ...

ANDERSON COUNTY — Attorneys for Robert Roberson claim new evidence revealed in a recently released NBC podcast warrants a retrial in his case. The podcast, titled The Last Appeal, was produced by ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- 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 ...