Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as shaken baby syndrome.

Robert Roberson is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, after his execution was delayed last year.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

CBS News Texas Live. A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...

The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence issued a subpoena on the day before Roberson's scheduled execution on Oct ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio, dressed in white, meets with Texas lawmakers Wednesday in prayer in a room at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas. AP. CNN — ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

Texas mother on death row, supported by Kim Kardashian, is 'actually innocent' of murder, judge says. Melissa Lucio had been set to be executed on April 27, 2022, before the Texas Court of ...

Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male death ...

Here are eight fast facts about the Lone Star State's death row, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Average length of time on death row prior to execution: 10.87 years ...

Texas’ approach to spiritual advisers at executions has oscillated over the course of Mr. Ramirez’s time on death row. The state allowed only prison-employed chaplains to be present in the ...