The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole’s six members voted unanimously to deny the request. The decision came as lawmakers ...

Robert Roberson of Texas is scheduled to die by lethal injection despite doubts over shaken baby syndrome, the scientific ...

Roberson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in ...

Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. under a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of ...

The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...

The clemency petition filed Sept. 17 asked for Roberson’s death sentence to be commuted, or the execution delayed 180 days to ...

The action by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals comes one day before Texas inmate Robert Roberson is scheduled for ...

A Texas judge has upheld the execution of a father convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter — despite a growing number of ...

Time is running out for Robert Roberson. The 57-year-old could become the first person in U.S. history to be executed for a ...