He has claimed his innocence for roughly two decades with his lawyer citing junk science or the Shaken Baby Syndrome as the ...

A new hearing has been scheduled for Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate convicted in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old daughter. The hearing is set for Wednesday, July 16, as the Texas Attorney ...

Robert Roberson, convicted of the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2003, faces a new execution date despite new evidence ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Texas Texas death row inmate's lawyer says 'there was no crime' as she makes last-ditch effort to save his life Robert Roberson scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Oct. 17 ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

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.

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 ...

A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be overturned as new evidence affirmed her daughter died from an accidental fall.

A court in Texas has thrown out the death sentence of convicted killer Raymond Riles, who has spent more than 40 years on the state’s death row. CNN values your feedback 1.

Riles, the longest-serving inmate on the Texas death row, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1974 shooting death of Houston used car dealer John Thomas Henry during a robbery.