The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases.
If we are truly a nation of laws, a people who love justice in the most meaningful sense of that word, then Robert Leslie Roberson III must be set free.” The parole board Wednesday did not recommend ...
DALLAS — The war of words over the fate of Robert Leslie Roberson III has the lawmakers who are seeking a new trial and the state's Attorney General airing their respective grievances ...
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 ...
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III so that it can consider whether a state’s highest criminal court, in summarily finding a procedural bar to ...
PALESTINE, Texas — As lawmakers in Austin debate and deconstruct the death penalty case against Robert Leslie Roberson III, Matthew Bowman keeps a teddy bear in his possession in Palestine ...
The Dallas Morning News read roughly 3,000 pages of court documents from Roberson’s guilt-innocence trial, punishment phase, ...