“The Death Star now operational,” Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), wrote in a statement posted to X back in July, shortly after a judge upheld The Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, ...

HOUSTON — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers traveled to Livingston this week to meet with Robert Roberson, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on October 16, as his legal team makes ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson's execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an "exorcism" to expel a demon from the child's body.

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AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his capital murder conviction back to trial court ...