Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, on Sept. 27. Roberson was scheduled for execution after being convicted in the death of his infant daughter.
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s life was spared by the Texas Supreme Court, which issued a temporary stay of his execution shortly before his death warrant was set to expire at midnight.
A last-ditch effort to stop Texas from executing an autistic man in a shaken baby case stretched into the final hours Thursday night as one judge granted an extraordinary maneuver by lawmakers to ...
Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was denied a stay of execution by the Supreme Court.