A Texas man whose execution was called off at the last minute is to testify on Monday before state lawmakers looking into his ...

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his ...

A historic Texas death penalty case has gripped the country’s attention as advocates work to save the life of condemned man Robert Roberson.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion in the Supreme Court of Texas asking the court to dismiss its Thursday order ...

Robert Roberson was served with an unprecedented subpoena to testify before the Texas House of Representatives on Monday. The Texas Supreme Court intervened on Thursday night in order to halt the ...

Roberson was sentenced to be executed on Thursday, but Texas lawmakers played a crucial role in halting the execution just hours before it was scheduled to happen.

A controversial diagnosis used against a man facing execution in the US helped convict an NZ woman featured in the latest Newsroom investigative podcast Fractured ...

A man whose execution was halted will testify at a legislative hearing about a “junk science” law in Texas that many say should have saved him long ago. The Supreme Court halted 57-year-old Robert Rob ...

It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who ...

Supreme Court justices weighed Wednesday whether to grant a new trial to Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man whose death row case has now come twice before the high court. Supreme Court appears open ...

The Seanad Éireann, Ireland’s legislature, passed a bill to establish specialized family law court divisions on Thursday, aiming to make an efficient and user-friendly family justice system. The ...

Moldovan voters appeared leery of a move to enshrine in their Constitution an “irreversible” commitment to abandon Russian influence and one day join the European Union. By Andrew Higgins ...