The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty is “inadmissible,” even for people who have committed heinous crimes.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals cited “changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury” as the most persuasive ...

Dallas County man Andrew Wayne Roark was exonerated after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said the shaken baby syndrome ...

Andrew Wayne Roark was convicted in 2000 of injury to a child and sentenced to 35 years in prison, according to a press ...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled last week that the state can proceed with ... died from severe pneumonia rather than physical ...

The Texas Supreme Court has cleared the way for Robert Roberson's execution to be rescheduled a month after he narrowly avoided it.

Since then, the Innocence Project has argued that Roberson’s defense was flawed and Nikki was a sick child with multiple ...

Melissa Lucio, who is also innocent of a similar crime that never happened, was recently found to be innocent by a Texas ...

Andrew Wayne Roark, 48, was tried based on medical evidence prosecutors said proved his girlfriend’s 1-year-old child was ...

Roberson was convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, who was diagnosed with ...

The state’s highest civil court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but suggested there’s still time for Roberson to testify before a Texas House panel.