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If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...
A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.
The Texas Attorney General’s office has taken over the Roberson case from the Anderson County District Attorney and has requested Roberson be immediately added to the death row calendar.
The State of Texas wants a new execution date to be set for death row inmate Robert Roberson. Roberson's attorneys argue the ...
Robert Roberson, who was convicted by an East Texas jury of murdering his two-year-old daughter in 2002, was set to die by execution on Oct. 17. He would have been the first person in the U.S. to ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing ...
Robert Roberson's execution can resume, Texas Supreme Court declares The execution of Robert Roberson -- whose "shaken baby syndrome" murder conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter has ...
An undated family photo of Robert Roberson III with his daughter Nikki. Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 17, 2024, for his conviction in a controversial "shaken baby syndrome" case.
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at Texas’ Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project) When a Texas House committee launched a ...
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at Texas' Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in ...