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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.
Robert Roberson, 57, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for killing his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002. However, hours before the scheduled execution, a Travis ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003. He has lost his appeals since. [1][2]
Supporters of Robert Roberson and advocates against the death penalty gathered outside the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville Thursday before Roberson's scheduled execution was put on hold.
Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), is a United States Supreme Court decision about the death penalty and intellectual disability.The court held that contemporary clinical standards determine what an intellectual disability is, and held that even milder forms of intellectual disability may bar a person from being sentenced to death due to the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel ...
A Texas “junk science writ” law must follow, intended specifically for the purpose of controversial scientific precepts used in criminal convictions — even if all 25 people on death row who ...
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [1] The 5–4 decision overruled Stanford v. Kentucky, in which the court had upheld execution of offenders at or ...
Landon Mion. October 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM. Anti-death penalty activists protest in Texas against capital punishment. Anti-death penalty advocates held a rally over the weekend in Texas calling for ...