The unanimous decision frees the state to reset Robert Roberson's execution date but suggests lawmakers may still be able to ...
Roberson was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in a “shaken baby” case that many say led to an innocent man’s ...
The Dallas Morning News read roughly 3,000 pages of court documents from Roberson’s guilt-innocence trial, punishment phase, ...
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against lawmakers who used their subpoena power to halt the execution of a death row inmate ...
The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence summoned Roberson to testify about his case, which successfully stayed ...
The state’s highest civil court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday denied a state house committee’s attempt to delay the execution of a man convicted of ...
A statement from me and @leachfortexas regarding #SCOTX and the taking the testimony of #RobertRoberson. #txlege ...
Leach, one of the driving forces behind the effort to stop Roberson’s execution, later apologized to the unnamed judge, who ...
In the texts, Leach reportedly asked the judge to reconsider Roberson's case, whose execution has now been postponed.
The story's headline was shortened due to length.*State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, texted a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...
Roberson was convicted in the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter but has long proclaimed his innocence. His lawyers as ...