Furthermore, on the basis of execution data and clinical, veterinary, and laboratory animal studies, we posit that the specified quantity of thiopental may not provide surgical anesthesia for the ...

Texas’s Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who was set to die on Thursday, hours before the convicted killer’s execution warrant expired at midnight. Robert Roberson, 57 ...

Lawmakers asked the courts on Thursday to stop Roberson’s execution so that he could appear for testimony before the committee on Monday. In a historic order, the Texas Supreme Court issued a ...

The Texas attorney general's office said it will appeal. Texas intends to break new ground Thursday with the first execution of someone sent to death row based on so-called shaken baby syndrome.

The subpoena eventually led to the Texas Supreme Court issuing a stay order to halt Roberson's execution Thursday night. However, Texas lawmakers also say they don't know how long Roberson could ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to die by lethal injection for the “shaken baby” death of his ...

Robert Roberson, the condemned man whose execution was halted late Thursday because of an unprecedented legal gambit by Texas lawmakers, is expected to appear in person Monday at a legislative ...

As per Texas law, a person cannot be put to death sooner than the 91st day after the convicting court enters the order setting the execution date. Roberson will appear before the House Committee ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice The scheduled execution of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, has been halted by the ...

And it opens new possibilities for people who want to stop an execution—not only in Texas, but across the nation. Roberson was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his infant daughter ...