A Texas judge has upheld the execution of a father convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter — despite a growing number of voices, including the detective who helped send him to death row ...

27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP, File)(AP) Robert Roberson III, could become the first person in the country executed under the disputed “shaken baby syndrome” theory as he is ...

Robert Roberson’s execution was put on hold after the Texas House subpoenaed him for testimony about the questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome in his case. By J. David Goodman The ...

Alabama executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday, eight years after he massacred five family members of his girlfriend with an ax and a gun in the middle of the night. Dearman, 36, was convicted of ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases.

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. from a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to receive a ...

A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate convicted in the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter. Robert Roberson, 57, was scheduled to be ...

South Carolina executed Richard Moore on Friday for the 1999 shooting death of a convenience store clerk. Moore, 59, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. ET after ...

Robert Roberson is set to be executed by the State of Texas on Thursday, Oct. 17, amid outcry from some lawmakers and advocates who argue that he is innocent. On Jan. 31, 2002, Roberson brought ...

Robert Roberson had been set to be executed on Thursday night for the death of his 2-year-old child. But after a bipartisan intervention by Texas lawmakers, the Supreme Court issued a stay.

The execution of Robert Roberson in Texas remains on track for Thursday, despite serious doubts that he killed or even mistreated his 2-year-old daughter in 2002. Prosecutors and medical experts ...