News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the innocent.
The move to halt Roberson's execution is temporary, but came less than two hours before the 57-year-old death row inmate was ...
The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. The Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that stopped the scheduled execution of ...
Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for ... in a case called Atkins v. Virginia barred executing intellectually ...
The rejection comes just one day before death row inmate Robert Roberson ... in the Capitol to review the case and to begin to address what changes are needed to Texas' so-called "junk science ...
Twenty years ago, John Grisham had already written more than a dozen best-selling legal thrillers when he came across a newspaper obituary that he thought had the stuff of a novel. Ron Williamson was ...
(CNN) — Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in ... the panel next week as it reconsiders the lawfulness of his case. The committee’s action provided new hope for Roberson ...
Execution season in Texas has drawn to a close for 2024. Here is a look at every person who was scheduled to die in 2024, ...
Ohio death-row inmate Tyrone Noling believes DNA testing ... to the point that it is “scientifically unsuitable” for DNA testing. “The consequences of mistakes in this [case] are not simply an ...