Robert Roberson listens as his lawyers plead his case on July 16, 2025. A new execution date of Oct. 16, 2025 was set by presiding Judge Austin Jackson of Smith County at the Anderson County ...

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 ...

Texas' highest criminal court has stayed the execution of Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who was—for the second time in two years—less than a week away from becoming the first person in the ...

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

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday took a major step toward righting an injustice — and, more critically, preventing the gravest one from occurring in the coming days — by halting the ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson’s case remains in legal limbo. On Tuesday his attorneys filed an Opposition to State’s Motion for Extension to Answer, asking the Anderson County district court to ...

Robert Roberson III, a Palestine man on death row, had his execution stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday, one week before he was scheduled to die. Roberson, 58, was convicted in ...

HOUSTON (AP) — 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 ...

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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 to the diagnosis of ...