A Texas judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who says he is innocent of murder ...

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...

Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as shaken baby syndrome.

Wednesday’s decision affirms Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an October execution date for Roberson, whose case has ...

Roberson was found guilty in 2003 of murdering his 2-year-old daughter Nikki, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers say the ...

In a Wednesday hearing, a Texas judge set a new execution date for Robert Roberson after he was granted a last-minute stay in 2024.

A district judge set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate, Robert Roberson. Roberson's new execution date is ...

After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution should be further delayed because of a pending appeal to the state's highest ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion asking the judge to set a new execution date for Roberson. The judge is ...

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested ...

A Smith County judge set Robert Roberson to be executed Oct. 16 — granting the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s request to set a death date nearly a ...

Roberson was convicted of the 2002 murder of his two-year-old daughter Nikki.