Robert Roberson, who had been set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

A condemned South Carolina inmate has chosen to be executed by lethal injection for killing a store clerk in 1999 ...

In a last-hour ruling Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court halted Roberson's execution scheduled for that evening.

While the execution of a Texas man was temporarily put on hold this week, more than 2,000 people remain on death row across ...

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

In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely ...

Attorneys for Richard Moore, scheduled to die on Nov. 1, filed a lawsuit questioning the governor's impartiality after ...

The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Questions remain over what happens next after the execution of Robert Roberson was temporarily halted by the state Supreme Court on Thursday.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is a longtime supporter of the Innocence Project, which is working to get Robert Roberson off of ...

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the ...