In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court wrestled with whether it should be the first state high court to bar trial evidence from doctors ...

The attorney representing the Texas governor's office filed an amicus brief Monday saying the petition filed by the House ...

A death row inmate in Texas is scheduled to appear before lawmakers after he was spared from execution in a last-minute legal ...

The Texas Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, which is reconsidering the lawfulness of Roberson’s conviction, issued a subpoena for Roberson to attend a hearing scheduled for M ...

Robert Roberson had been set to die Thursday for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. Among those who believe he is innocent is the former lead detective on the case.

A Texas appeals court has reversed a judge's order to delay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a man who would become the ...

Texas parole board votes against clemency for man who could be first in US executed over shaken baby syndrome.

Roberson's lawyers, a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers, medical experts and others argue his conviction was based on ...

Barring a successful last-minute appeal, the US state of Texas will execute an autistic man this week whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby ...