The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to ...

Hours before he was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what used to be ...

Because Gretchen Sween had less than three months to save her client’s life, she couldn’t take a single day away from her desk to drive to the prison to meet him. She instead digested books’ worth of ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Gretchen Sween, attorney for death row inmate Robert Roberson III, shakes hands with Josh Burns, a shaken baby exoneree, following his testimony during a Texas House Committee on Criminal ...

State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, is a member of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence that intervened in the execution of Robert Roberson. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune Audio ...

Trial judge in Robert Roberson’s death row case agrees to recusal The new legislative session starts — and the committee disbands — on Jan. 14. “The attorney general’s office knows that ...

A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state's prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder ...

Roberson faces execution for the death of his two-year-old daughter back in 2002 AUSTIN, Texas - Texas lawmakers subpoenaed death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify at the state capitol on ...

In 2024, Robert Roberson captured national attention and reignited debates about the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty in Texas. While Roberson rightly dominated headlines due to the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a new motion attempting to block Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the State Capitol on Friday.