South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to die by lethal injection for the “shaken baby” death of his ...

A Texas judge has upheld the execution of a father convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter — despite a growing number of voices, including the detective who helped send him to death row ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases.

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

Robert Roberson’s execution was put on hold after the Texas House subpoenaed him for testimony about the questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome in his case. By J. David Goodman The ...

Roberson was set to be executed on Oct. 17. Questions remain over what happens next after the execution of a Texas inmate, who was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter, was temporarily ...

A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate convicted in the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter. Robert Roberson, 57, was scheduled to be ...

The execution of Robert Roberson in Texas remains on track for Thursday, despite serious doubts that he killed or even mistreated his 2-year-old daughter in 2002. Prosecutors and medical experts ...

A Texas board has rejected a clemency request for a man facing execution over a case of "shaken baby syndrome" despite doubts over the evidence in the case. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles ...

By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday halted the execution of Robert Roberson, a Texas man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter, after a roller ...