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

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

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 ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails 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 called "shaken baby syndrome," Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

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

A Texas House committee whose eleventh-hour subpoena of death row inmate Robert Roberson bought him at least three more months to live has again summoned the condemned man to testify at the ...

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 before a ...

DALLAS -- Time is running out for Texas legislators who want to bring death row inmate Robert Roberson III in person before a House committee investigating his conviction. The next steps in the ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers announced Tuesday they had issued a new subpoena that would require the state’s prison system to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to ...