In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion in the Supreme Court of Texas asking the court to dismiss its Thursday order delaying the execution of Robert Roberson III. The order, which came late ...

In a last-hour ruling Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court halted Roberson's execution scheduled for that evening.

A frantic and unprecedented rush by Texas lawmakers to successfully block the controversial execution of death row inmate ...