The state of Texas is preparing to execute a man sent to death row based on a disputed theory. The courts have declined to intervene.

The case of Robert Roberson, set for execution on October 17, has reignited a debate over the state’s reluctance to overturn death sentences in light of evolving scientific understanding of shaken ...

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

Robert Roberson attended Tuesday's hearing via Zoom. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed a 2016 execution and sent Roberson's case back to the trial court to consider the merits of four claims, ...

A Texas man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome awaited a decision Wednesday on his request for clemency ...

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Colin Allred (D-TX32) will take the debate stage tonight in Dallas with election night three weeks away. The result of the U.S. Senate contest in Texas could ...

Roberson has argued since his conviction that he is the victim of a justice system that wrongly attributed his daughter’s tragic death to “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) and falsely pointed to him as the ...

Roberson could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome.

Two recent court decisions leave few options for the Palestine man, who is set to be executed Thursday on the basis of a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis.

Lindsay Herf, the executive director of the Arizona Justice Project, has been monitoring the case of Robert Roberson, a Texas inmate scheduled to be executed this Thursday based on a controversial ...

Robert Roberson III, 57, was sentenced to death in 2003 in connection with the death of his daughter Nikki Curtis, but he continues to claim his innocence.

A Texas court denied a motion to vacate an execution warrant and remove a judge in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson.