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It could be a year or more before the new trial of “Texas 7" inmate Randy Halprin gets underway. That’s because the Dallas ...
The state’s highest criminal court ruled in another case that the science had changed. By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston Texas is preparing for the execution this week of an autistic ...
which last year declined to review his case. His best chance now lies with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a pro-death-penalty Republican who has only once used his executive powers to stop an execution.
Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly clerk, received the death penalty in 2013. The execution is Texas’ fourth and may be the last for 2025.
Instead, it was members of the Texas House, outraged by what they saw as injustice in Mr. Roberson’s case, and seeking to make time for a new hearing on the evidence, who forced the execution ...
In stunning move, Texas Supreme Court halts Robert Roberson execution in 'shaken baby' case If the appeals courts finds problems, the association says, the case is typically sent back to the trial ...
A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate ... ruled that he would be allowed to testify in his case next week. Mangrum agreed and granted a ...
If the state of Texas moves forward with the execution, he will be the first American to be executed for a case of "shaken baby syndrome." Robert Roberson, now 57, was convicted in 2003 of killing ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has not been happy about efforts to halt Roberson’s execution or to rehear the case. He has publicly asked lawmakers to resign and step down and defiled the ...
Robert Roberson III, an East Texas who faces execution in the controversial "shaken baby syndrome" case, photographed through plexiglass at Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit.( ...
Frustration grows for the mother of one of the victims found in a Northeast El Paso desert as the man convicted in the slayings avoided execution.