The stay came mere hours before Robert Roberson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder ...

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night's scheduled execution of a man who would have become the ...

An unusual legal move has bought more time for a Texas man who was set to be executed Thursday evening.

A last-ditch effort to stop Texas from executing an autistic man in a shaken baby case stretched into the final hours Thursday night as one judge granted an extraordinary maneuver by lawmakers to ...

House members were successful in halting the execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III. The Supreme Court of ...

Robert Roberson is set to die for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. The case underscores broader questions about outdated medical science in criminal convictions.

: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals shot down a last-minute motion by a Travis County judge to halt the execution of Robert ...

On the night of October 17, Robert Roberson was granted a last-minute reprieve from execution by lethal injection due to a ...

The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the ...

Hours after the original execution time of 6 p.m. local time had passed in Texas, Roberson had remained in a prison holding cell a few feet from the death chamber at the Walls Unit in Hunstville.