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 ...

Jeff Leach sit at the dais during a Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence meeting about death row inmate Robert Roberson III at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Friday, Dec. 20 ...

The motion escalates a tense standoff between Paxton and a bipartisan Texas House committee, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify at the Capitol on Friday. Audio recording is automated for ...

Amy Hedtke of Whitney and Bob Smilie of Duncanville hold a banner in front of a hearing room where committee members are discussing the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson at the Texas ...

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"Shaken baby syndrome” played a role in Roberson's 2003 murder conviction. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion that he said excuses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice from ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blocked death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying before state lawmakers on Friday, and this time it may mean Roberson never appears in Austin. The move is ...

The hopes that Texas lawmakers and the public might hear from a death-row prisoner at the center of one of the nation’s most high-profile capital cases were dashed Friday after the state’s ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing ...

A Texas House Committee was left without its key witness on Friday after Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion late Thursday barring death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion Thursday night to block death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the Capitol on Friday in the latest escalation of a political ...