If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Robert Roberson have filed a formal objection to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to set an execution date, citing ongoing legal proceedings and compelling ...

Perhaps even more unusual is the fact that Paxton’s office is involved at all. The attorney general’s office has taken over ...

A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.

On Monday, the Texas Attorney General's Office filed a request seeking a new execution date for Roberson. The next day, Tuesday, Roberson's team filed a motion objecting to the idea of setting a new ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Anderson County District Court to schedule an execution date for autistic death ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, the East Texas man who narrowly avoided being put to death last ...

Robert Roberson at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Tex., on Dec. 19. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project) ...

A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd 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 ...

Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Thursday after his attorneys were told Judge Alfonso Charles, the Tenth Administrative Judicial Region presiding judge ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton is requesting a new execution date for Robert Roberson, months after state lawmakers used an ...