Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

Robert Roberson III, a Palestine man on death row, had his execution stayed by Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday, one week before he was scheduled ...

Robert Roberson's execution is halted under the state's "junk science" law that allows courts to re-examine convictions based on outdated science.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Robert Roberson would have been the first person in the country executed for a murder conviction centered around shaken baby ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old ...

The order was praised by Texas legislators who have questioned the science behind the death row inmate’s 2003 capital murder conviction.

On Thursday, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West by nitrogen gas. At the same time, Texas is scheduled to execute Blaine ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.