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For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

A Texas court has halted the execution of a man convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in a "shaken baby syndrome" case. Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has always maintained the child ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was subpoenaed to testify at a committee hearing on Friday. Lawmakers want to hear testimony from Roberson on Texas' "junk science" law. Roberson was convicted ...

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

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

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Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Flores' appeal challenging his death sentence for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. Texas’ highest criminal court has ...

HOUSTON — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers traveled to Livingston this week to meet with Robert Roberson, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on October 16, as his legal team makes ...