A Texas judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who says he is innocent of murder ...

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...

Wednesday’s decision affirms Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an October execution date for Roberson, whose case has ...

Roberson was found guilty in 2003 of murdering his 2-year-old daughter Nikki, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers say the ...

In a Wednesday hearing, a Texas judge set a new execution date for Robert Roberson after he was granted a last-minute stay in ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion asking the judge to set a new execution date for Roberson. The judge is ...

Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as shaken baby syndrome.

Roberson, who was convicted of capital murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, was present at the hearing and ...

A Smith County judge set Robert Roberson to be executed Oct. 16 — granting the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s request to set a death date nearly a ...

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested ...

After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution ...