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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The execution of Robert Roberson, an autistic father at the center of a controversial “shaken baby syndrome” case, is set to proceed after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Democrat, Dan Morales, was the Texas attorney general when Wood's death penalty case went to trial in 1992. Wood's execution has languished in the state's court system during John Cornyn ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered his thoughts about the hit-and-run jet ski crash that killed 18-year-old kayaker Ava Moore at ...

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, whose bodies were found strangled and raped in a Northeast El Paso desert. Wood is ...

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.