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Wednesday’s decision affirms Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an October execution date for Roberson, whose case has ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion asking the judge to set a new execution date for Roberson. The judge is ...
A district judge set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate, Robert Roberson. Roberson's new execution date is ...
A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syn ...
He has claimed his innocence for roughly two decades, claiming junk science or the Shaken Baby Syndrome as the reason for his conviction.
Texas could soon execute a man before his appeal is heard — and set a dangerous national precedent Advocates say Robert Roberson was wrongfully convicted. Texas AG demands the death penalty anyway ...
This week, Paxton’s office requested a new execution date for Roberson despite the fact that a new appeal on Roberson’s behalf is pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Roberson was convicted of capital murder in connection with the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter.
Robert Roberson at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested a new execution date for Roberson.
ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas — The attorney for Robert Roberson has filed an objection after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked an Anderson County district court to schedule a new execution date.