The three-page letter sent Sunday by James Sullivan, Abbott’s general counsel, said only the governor has the constitutional ...

It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who ...

The Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that stopped the ...

The governor has publicly remained silent as pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for him to step in on behalf of ...

With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments ...

The brief accounts for Abbott's first public comments on the matter. The governor, who had the ability to grant Roberson a 30 ...

Until Monday, the Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that ...

In a Texas House hearing about a junk science law, a juror who voted to convict death row inmate Robert Roberson said she ...

Robert Roberson, who had been set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson is expected to testify before Texas state lawmakers after his execution was halted last week ...

A Texas House committee voted Wednesday to subpoena the condemned man to testify at a hearing scheduled after he is expected ...

Three of the state criminal appeals court judges who have so far refused to review the death row inmate's innocence claims ...