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Texas Supreme Court issues stay halting Robert Roberson's execution
The Supreme Court of Texas granted a stay late Thursday night effectively halting the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson III.
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State expected to appeal TRO granted for man facing execution; Supreme Court denies stay
There’s been a flurry of action surrounding the effort to save a Texas man set for execution. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop Robert Roberson’s execution. But an Austin judge then issued a ruling calling for prison officials to delay the sentence. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero takes a look at what’s happening as officials took Roberson to the death...
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of Robert Roberson III
Despite saying credible evidence of his innocence has been raised, the Supreme Court of the United States has denied a stay for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III and said it’s up to Gov. Greg Abbott to issue a 30-day stay.
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Robert Roberson scheduled to be executed for ‘shaken baby' death on Thursday
Without intervention from Greg Abbott or the U.S. Supreme Court, a Texas man would be the first to be executed for a conviction based on a syndrome that has come under scientific scrutiny. NBC 5’s Larry Collins tells us the details.
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Efforts continue to stop the Thursday execution of Robert Roberson
Despite testimony that a man on death row is innocent Robert Roberson’s fate is all but sealed. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the East Texas father bid for clemency plea Wednesday. Roberson was convicted of shaking his young daughter to death more than 20 years ago. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero is monitoring the final appeals in the...
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Texas parole board denies clemency for man in ‘shaken baby' death
The Texas Board of Paroles and Pardons has denied recommending clemency for Robert Roberson III one day before his scheduled execution, according to NBC News.
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Supporters fight to stop execution of Texas man convicted in daughter's ‘shaken baby' death
The clock is ticking for an East Texas man set to die by lethal injection in just two days. In 2003, Robert Roberson was found guilty of murdering his 2-year-old daughter, who prosecutors said killed from shaken baby syndrome. His supporters are urging the governor to issue a stay – giving them more time to appeal the case that they...
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Lawyers and lawmakers fight to stop Texas from executing Robert Roberson
There are renewed calls for Gov. Greg Abbott to pause the Oct. 17 execution of an East Texas man convicted of shaking his 2-year-old to death more than two decades ago. NBC 5’s David Goins reports attorneys for Robert Roberson and a growing number of state lawmakers say his death sentence is based on ‘junk science’ and took his case...
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Execution upheld for Texas man convicted in daughter's ‘shaken baby' death
Robert Roberson’s attorneys are asking for a 30-day stay of execution before Thursday.
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Supreme Court weighs key testimony that underpins death row inmate's conviction
The state’s Republican attorney general agrees that Richard Glossip’s conviction should be thrown out based on problematic testimony at trial.
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Texas execution in October renews calls for rarely granted clemency
A Texas man set to die this month is at the center of another push for clemency in the U.S., this time backed by several GOP lawmakers and bestselling author John Grisham, who say a father’s 2002 conviction for killing his infant daughter deserves a second look.
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Man to be executed Tuesday for killing twin girls, their mom in 1989
A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening.
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Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country's second nitrogen gas execution
A man convicted of killing three people in workplace shootings has been executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama.
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Texas man set to be executed for stomping his infant son to death
A Texas man with a history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence is facing execution for killing his 3-month-old son.
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There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US — that's the most in decades
The executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five were held in seven days.
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South Carolina restarts executions after 13 years
South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade.
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Texas lawmakers urge Gov. Abbott to halt man's execution in ‘shaken baby' case
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers petitioned Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday to stop the scheduled execution next month of a man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, arguing the case was built on faulty scientific evidence.
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Texas court won't stop man's execution in shaken baby case
Texas’s highest criminal court on Wednesday declined to stop the execution next month of Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter
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Supreme Court grants Texas man a stay just before his scheduled execution
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago.
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Texas man facing execution for 1998 killing of elderly woman for her money
A Texas man is set to be executed for the killing of an elderly woman decades ago in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal money the woman had hidden in her Brownsville home.