Democratic Party candidate for Johnson County Sheriff Byron Roberson gets a hug from a supporter at an election night watch party on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in downtown Overland Park. Chris Ochsner ...

The Supreme Court of Texas on Friday removed its temporary block on the execution of Robert Roberson, saying that Texas legislators’ subpoenas can’t be used to halt death row inmates ...

After years of lawyers and advocates arguing Robert Roberson‘s capital punishment sentence was based on junk science and a misdiagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome,” the Texas Supreme Court on ...

The scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III in Texas was halted by the state’s highest court late Thursday following an extraordinary sequence of maneuvers by members of the state ...

Despite significant doubts surrounding Robert Roberson's culpability in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, the 57-year-old is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Thursday evening.

The Supreme Court declined to block Texas from executing Robert Roberson, who insists his conviction for murdering his 2-year-old daughter rests upon a debunked version of shaken baby syndrome ...

Robert Roberson’s execution was postponed after the Texas House subpoenaed him for testimony about the questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome in his case. By J. David Goodman The case of ...

Byron Roberson discusses his goals as Johnson County Sheriff on Up To Date Byron Roberson is the first Democrat in 96 years, and the first African American, to hold the office of Johnson County ...

Texas lawmakers were expected to hear testimony at the state Capitol on Monday from Robert Roberson, a death row inmate whose execution was temporarily called off last week. But Roberson ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson did not appear Monday to testify before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence – in person or otherwise – despite a subpoena lawmakers issued last ...

9:16 p.m. Oct. 20, 2024: Updated to include more details from the state's Supreme Court. The Texas attorney general’s office asked the state’s Supreme Court on Saturday to reconsider its ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Supreme Court of Texas is weighing whether death row inmate Robert Roberson — whose capital punishment was temporarily halted last month — must testify before a Texas ...