The development comes after several Republican and Democratic state lawmakers issued a subpoena for Roberson to testify at a hearing next week about his case

A judge granted a request to delay the execution of a man scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

The last-minute decision comes in response to a legal maneuver in which a House committee voted to subpoena Roberson after his scheduled death.