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Texas lawmakers try to spare Robert Roberson with a subpoena

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Texas lawmakers try to spare Robert Roberson with a subpoena

Audio recording is automated for accessibility reasons. People wrote and edited history. View our AI policy and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter keeping readers up to date on Texas' most important news. Brian Wharton's voice cracked as he reached back two decades in his memory to describe […]

Texas lawmakers did something unprecedented to save an innocent man's life.

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Texas lawmakers did something unprecedented to save an innocent man's life.

Robert Roberson, wrongly convicted of a capital crime, was scheduled to die Thursday at 6 p.m. He is alive today because a committee of the Texas Legislature did something truly unprecedented in the history of this country: it ingeniously used an ordinary legislative power to create a legislative stay and stop his execution. Their courageous […]

Robert Roberson and the Shaken Baby Syndrome Controversy

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Robert Roberson and the Shaken Baby Syndrome Controversy

Audio recording is automated for accessibility reasons. People wrote and edited history. View our AI policy and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter keeping readers up to date on Texas' most important news. On Thursday, Robert Roberson will become the first person in the United States to be […]

Robert Roberson 'shocked' by execution delay in Texas

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Robert Roberson 'shocked' by execution delay in Texas

Robert Roberson was “shocked” after the Texas Supreme Court halted his execution on Thursday. Roberson, 57, would become the first person in the United States to be executed for murder related to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. He was sentenced to death for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, after prosecutors argued […]

What you should know about shaken baby syndrome

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What you should know about shaken baby syndrome

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man This week could mark the first person to be executed in the United States for murder linked to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. The Texas Board of Parole voted 6-0 on Wednesday against recommending a pardon for Robert Robersonwho is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday. […]

A man who killed five people and asked to be executed is being executed in Alabama

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A man who killed five people and asked to be executed is being executed in Alabama

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted doing so five people killed with an ax and a gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to move forward with his lethal injection. Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman Prison in southern Alabama. […]

Marcellus Williams fell victim to the worst hypocrisy of the Supreme Court.

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Marcellus Williams fell victim to the worst hypocrisy of the Supreme Court.

The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday. He was almost certainly innocent, and his own accusers, as well as the family of his alleged victim, had sought to spare his life. St. Louis prosecutors urged the courts not to kill Williams, arguing that his conviction was fatally undermined by a shocking lack of […]

Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

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Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of the 1998 murder of […]

Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams

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Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams

Conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are under criticism for refusing to stop the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams of Missouri, who died by lethal injection on Tuesday evening. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, who was found stabbed to death in her St. Louis […]

Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite doubts about his conviction | Death penalty news

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Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite doubts about his conviction | Death penalty news

The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 of the murder of Lisha Gayle during an apparently botched burglary. Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder 21 years ago, was executed in the midwestern state of Missouri despite doubts about the integrity of the case. The United States Supreme Court, the last body that could have overturned […]