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 ...
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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 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 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 ...
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Texas Supreme Court removes temporary block to Roberson’s execution
The Supreme Court of Texas on Friday removed its temporary block on the execution of Robert Roberson, saying that Texas ...
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 ...
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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 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.
Texas Supreme Court rules against lawmakers' subpoena to halt Roberson execution
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers issued a subpoena last month, calling death-row inmate Robert Roberson to appear in ...
‘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’ ‘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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How division over a Texas death row inmate’s guilt became a 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 ...