More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

Robert Roberson's execution is halted under the state's "junk science" law that allows courts to re-examine convictions based on outdated science.

Robert Roberson III, a Palestine man on death row, had his execution stayed by Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday, one week before he was scheduled ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

A shield statute allows the state to withhold a telling piece of information: where Texas is finding a hard-to-get execution ...

Roberson has been saved again from becoming the first person to be executed based on disputed evidence of Abusive Head Trauma ...

Robert Roberson would have been the first person in the country executed for a murder conviction centered around shaken baby ...

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Roberson is scheduled to be executed ...

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson’s execution to consider the use of “junk science” in his ...

Texas’ top criminal court has again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death in a shaken baby case.