Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...

Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

Gretchen Sween, attorney for death row inmate Robert Roberson III, shakes hands with Josh Burns, a shaken baby exoneree, following his testimony during a Texas House Committee on Criminal ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be ...

The motion escalates a tense standoff between Paxton and a bipartisan Texas House committee, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify at the Capitol on Friday. Audio recording is automated for ...

An earlier subpoena ended up delaying Roberson's Oct. 17 execution, which was tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

State lawmakers want death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in 2023, to testify about his case at the state Capitol, but Attorney General Ken Paxton's office ...

Ken Paxton (R), filed a late-night motion to block Robert Roberson from testifying at the Texas Capitol. Paxton and members of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence for months have b ...

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 ...

A Texas House committee on Tuesday subpoenaed death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify Friday at the Capitol. Roberson was sentenced to the death penalty for the 2003 death of his 2-year-old ...

Jeff Leach sit at the dais during a Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence meeting about death row inmate Robert Roberson III at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Friday, Dec. 20 ...

A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state’s prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder ...