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June 16 – Wood was found guilty of kidnapping and rape in an unrelated case, violating the ... appeal based on findings of DNA testing. The trial judge denied this appeal in 2022, and the ruling was ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was subpoenaed to testify at a committee hearing on Friday. Lawmakers want to hear testimony from Roberson on Texas' "junk science" law. Roberson was convicted ...

A Texas court has halted the execution of a man convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in a "shaken baby syndrome" case. Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has always maintained the child ...

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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 ...

Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Flores' appeal challenging his death sentence for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. Texas’ highest criminal court has ...

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis CECILE CLOCHERET/AFP via Getty Robert Roberson, the Texas ...