The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.
The stay came mere hours before Robert Robertson was poised to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.
The last-minute decision comes in response to a legal maneuver in which a House committee voted to subpoena Roberson after ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Robert Roberson, who was scheduled to be killed by lethal ...
The state’s highest civil court said it wants a lower court to resolve a separation-of-powers issue raised by a group of ...
Late Thursday night, the Texas Supreme Court halted​ the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson, granting a last-second civil ...
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 ...