The execution of Robert Roberson, a 58-year-old Texas death row inmate convicted of killing his daughter, has been paused for ...

Robert Roberson would have been the first person in the country executed for a murder conviction centered around shaken baby ...

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson's execution to consider the use of "junk science" in his ...

A state law shields its source of pentobarbital, the sedative used in lethal injections. But documents reviewed by NBC News ...

On a bitterly cold night in late January 2002, an injured two-year-old girl was brought into the emergency room of a hospital ...

In a dramatic turnaround, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a halt to the execution of death row inmate ...

Final meal of death row inmate Roy Lee Ward has been released, prior to his execution for raping and murdering teenager Stacy ...

A capital defense attorney reflects on her client's execution and the fight for dignity amid state-sanctioned death.

Now, his case will return to the trial court in Anderson County, where Roberson was convicted of killing his daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2003. His attorneys are requesting a new trial. “I think there’s ...

A death-row inmate who was set to become the first person in America to be executed in a shaken baby syndrome case was spared ...

Execution Blocked - A court blocks the execution of Robert Roberson.  It comes as the Death Row inmate is receiving renewed support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers in his calls for a new trial.

Death Row prisoner Lance Shockley was convicted in 2009 of ambushing and fatally shooting Trooper Graham outside his home ...