The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously denied Robert Roberson’s request for clemency, one day out from his scheduled execution. If he is executed in Huntsville on Thursday, Roberson will be the first person in the nation to be executed in a shaken baby syndrome case.

Gov. Greg Abbott is urging the Texas Supreme Court to block Robert Roberson from testifying before a House panel Monday, arguing lawmakers in the committee are effectively usurping state clemency power left solely to him by subpoenaing the death row inmate.

Death row inmate Robert Roberson is once again the subject of last-minute maneuvering as his scheduled testimony before a bipartisan group of Texas legislators Monday is shrouded in uncertainty just hours before it’s set to begin.

Texas lawmakers did not hear testimony from Robert Roberson Monday. The death row inmate was expected to testify at a Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing just days after his execution was halted.

A man on death row after being convicted of killing his daughter through Shaken Baby Syndrome, Robert Roberson, received a last-minute stay of execution last week, but political clashes between the Texas house and Governor Abbott thwarted his scheduled testimony before a state house committee on Monday,