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If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...
Robert Roberson, who was convicted by an East Texas jury of murdering his two-year-old daughter in 2002, was set to die by execution on Oct. 17. He would have been the first person in the U.S. to ...
Jennifer Martin, center, and Thomas Roberson, right, older brother of condemned prisoner Robert Roberson, holds signs with others as they protest outside the prison where Roberson is scheduled for ...
However, one day later, his execution was postponed. Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, September 27, 2024. Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP ...
An undated family photo of Robert Roberson III with his daughter Nikki. Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 17, 2024, for his conviction in a controversial "shaken baby syndrome" case.
Roberson’s family members disputed that depiction. “No one who knew Robert well believed he was capable of harming any child,” Thomas Roberson wrote in a statement about his brother.
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at Texas' Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in ...
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at Texas' Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in ...
AUSTIN – Robert Roberson, the Texas man whose execution was halted by the state Supreme Court, is expected to testify before a legislative panel on Monday.
A day after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released the autopsy report for Nikki Curtis, the daughter Robert Roberson was convicted of killing and sentenced to death for, Roberson’s defense ...
Robert Roberson’s attorney Gretchen Sims Sween (left) and attorney Donald P. Salzman, who has done pro bono work on death penalty cases for the National Innocence Project and reviewed the ...
Terre Compton, who was a juror during Robert Roberson’s 2003 trial, testified at a hearing held by the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Monday.