It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest genome ever found in Italy, belonging to a 17,000-year-old toddler with blue eyes.

Over six hours on the day Robert Roberson was set to be put to death, Texas House lawmakers waged a rollercoaster legal ...

Vanessa Potkin of The Innocence Project says a subpoena from the Texas state legislature has saved Roberson’s life — for the ...

Now, Roberson will testify in person before the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Monday, his lawyer, Gretchen ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the ...

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely ...

The Texas man will testify before the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence of the Texas House of Representatives.

The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection.

Following an extraordinary legal battle and the Texas Supreme Court issuing a stay of execution Thursday, death row inmate ...