Watch Live: Robert Roberson testifies before Texas lawmakers ... - CBS News
13 hours ago · CBS News Texas Live. Texas lawmakers are expected to hear testimony at the state Capitol on Monday from Robert Roberson, a death row inmate whose execution was temporarily called off last week ...
Anti-death penalty activists protest in Texas against capital punishment
21 hours ago · Anti-death penalty advocates, including state abolitionists, former death row inmates and allies, held a rally in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished.
Texas House committee chair signals Robert Roberson will not
11 hours ago · Death row inmate Robert Roberson is once again the subject of last-minute maneuvering as his scheduled testimony before a bipartisan group of Texas legislators Monday is shrouded in uncertainty.
Robert Roberson's death penalty case proceeds despite ... - CBS News
4 days ago · Roberson was subpoenaed Wednesday night by a bipartisan group of Texas state lawmakers on the state House Criminal Justice Committee after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles earlier in the...
Robert Roberson: Texas lawmakers did something unprecedented …
4 days ago · Photos via Texas Department of Criminal Justice/Handout via Reuters and Kongkit Buasuriya/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Robert Roberson, who was wrongfully convicted of a capital crime, was due to die ...
Texas committee approves subpoena for death row inmate ahead …
6 days ago · Roberson’s innocence claim underscores an inherent risk of capital punishment: a potentially innocent person could be put to death. At least 200 people – 18 in Texas – have been exonerated...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas - Dallas News
4 days ago · Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put 591 people to death, according to online records.
Roberson ruling puts Texas criminal court in spotlight - The Texas …
4 days ago · The Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas’ highest court for criminal cases, has ruled, repeatedly and definitively, that Robert Roberson should be executed for killing his 2-year-old daughter in ...
Texas Legislators Persuade Texas Supreme Court to Grant …
5 days ago · Mr. Roberson, who has long maintained his innocence, was scheduled to be executed in Texas on Thursday, October 17 th at 6 pm Central Time. A Travis County district court judge entered a TRO staying his execution just 90 minutes before the execution at the request of Texas legislators, who had subpoenaed Mr. Roberson to testify at a …
Robert Roberson: Shaken baby syndrome may be key in Texas
Oct 13, 2024 · His innocence claim also highlights an inherent risk of capital punishment: a potentially innocent person could be put to death. At least 200 people – 18 in Texas – have been exonerated since...