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Texas Supreme Court removes temporary block to Robert Roberson’s execution
The state’s highest civil court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but ...
Texas Supreme Court clears way for new execution date for Robert Roberson in 2-year-old daughter’s death
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday denied a state house committee’s attempt to delay the execution of a man convicted of ...
Texas Supreme Court To Allow Execution of Robert Roberson
Robert Roberson, the man convicted of killing his daughter due to shaken baby syndrome, will be executed in Texas after delays.
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How disagreements about a Texas death row inmate’s guilt became a legal battle between branches of government
The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...
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Texas Supreme Court weighs in on argument over death row inmate’s delayed execution date
As a legal chess match continues over a death row inmate’s life, the Texas Supreme Court has weighed in, saying a legislative ...
Texas court clears way for execution of man in 'shaken baby' case
The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the southern US state to set a new execution date for an autistic man ...
Texas’ ‘junk science’ law is at the center of the Robert Roberson case?
The Texas junk science law, passed in 2013, allows people to challenge their convictions based on new scientific evidence that was not available at the ...
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Texas’ ‘junk science’ law is at the center of the Robert Roberson case?
Brian Wharton, the lead detective who testified for the prosecution at trial but now believes that Robert Roberson is innocent, speaks during a news conference in front of the Anderson County ...
Texas Supreme Court rules legislative subpoena cannot delay executions
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that the subpoena issued by the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence last month ...
Texas Supreme Court clears way for death row inmate Robert Roberson's execution. Here's why
The unanimous decision frees the state to reset Robert Roberson's execution date but suggests lawmakers may still be able to ...
‘Tell me exactly what happened’: Digging into Robert Roberson’s trial, hearing transcripts
The Dallas Morning News read roughly 3,000 pages of court documents from Roberson’s guilt-innocence trial, punishment phase, ...
Texas Supreme Court clears the way for execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson
The Texas Supreme Court is a civil court jurisdiction and does not rule on criminal cases. So Friday's ruling was only on the subpoena power of the legislature and does not address the merits of ...