It’s been 148 days since Texas executed someone—a remarkable lull in the use of the death penalty for a state that has killed far more people than any other. The 2016 hiatus is, in part, a sign of the ...

Robert Roberson hopes he can again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. With days to go before his scheduled ...

Texas, which historically drives the number of executions nationwide, is approaching a grim milestone of 600 people put to death by lethal injection since the early 1980s. But for the past 10 years, a ...

Robert Roberson waits to be interviewed in a locked visitation cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. [AP Photo/Annie Mulligan] The machinery of the ...

It's not unusual for a death row inmate to claim innocence. What is highly unusual in the case of Robert Roberson is not only the number of people who believe in his innocence, but who those people ...