Robert Roberson's legal team filed a clemency petition in the hopes Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and ...

Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate with autism, gains support to halt his execution scheduled for October 17 amid new ...

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row ...

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.

The state could be the first to carry out the death penalty for someone convicted due to the diagnosis, despite its ...

More than 80 state lawmakers, including Democrats and Republicans, have asked the governor to extend clemency to Robert ...

Robert Roberson was convicted in 2002 of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death at his home in Palestine, Texas. Shaken baby syndrome is a controversial child abuse theory that has since ...

Grisham, whose legal thrillers have been adapted into popular Hollywood films, spoke out about a man who has spent more than ...

If all the lawyers would boycott and refuse to defend a death penalty case, we could stop the executions, writes Randy ...

One person is dead, and two other people have serious injuries after a two-car crash on Priest Drive near Loop 202 in Tempe ...

Lawmakers cite new scientific evidence that they say proves Robert Roberson, who is set for execution on Oct. 17, did not ...