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 listens as his lawyers plead his case on July 16, 2025. A new execution date of Oct. 16, 2025 was set by presiding Judge Austin Jackson of Smith County at the Anderson County ...

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who used their legislative powers and the courts to stop an execution last week with ...

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson’s execution to consider the use of “junk science” in his ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

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

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will not petition for clemency ahead of his scheduled execution in three weeks and will instead focus on obtaining a new trial in his capital murder conviction, ...