An East Texas judge has declined to vacate the execution warrant for a Palestine man on death row since 2003. Robert Roberson, 59, of Palestine, who was sentenced in 2003 for the 2002 death of his daughter,

A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to "shaken baby syndrome", less than two hours before the capital punishment was due to be carried out.

The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied