Robert Roberson came within 90 minutes of execution before winning a delay in an extraordinary legal twist. Roberson, convicted in the 2002 "shaken baby" death of his 2-year-old daughter, has ...

allowing inmates extra time to appeal their death. Texas elects to begin at 6 p.m., which is more convenient for the witnesses and minimizes overtime work for prison staff.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written ...

Brooks, who served seven years behind bars for kidnap, was one of 1,100 inmates expected to be let out of jail early on ...

Death row inmate Robert ... However, the Texas state parole board voted unanimously, 6-0, to not recommend that Roberson's death sentence be commuted to life in prison or that his execution ...

Lawmakers may bolster law on "junk science" convictions Death row inmate was convicted of murdering daughter Oct 18 (Reuters) - A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on ...

A unanimous vote by a Texas House committee successfully subpoenaed a death row inmate scheduled to receive death by lethal injection for the alleged 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter.

Just a day before his scheduled execution, death row inmate Robert ... the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to 35 years in prison for his conviction of ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written by inmates themselves. TEXAS LETTERS, an ongoing anthology of letters ...

Texas Death Row Inmate to Testify Before Lawmakers Who Secured Reprieve By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to ...

(Reuters) - A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the state lawmakers who believe he may have been wrongly convicted ...