Hours after Robert Roberson was set to be executed on Thursday night, legal battles aimed at delaying his death continued amid a thundering chorus of people who

Robert Roberson is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Thursday in Texas but Gov. Greg Abbott or the U.S. Supreme Court could delay the execution.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday night reversed an order by a Travis County judge who had issued a temporary restraining order halting the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson.

The clemency petition asked for Robert Roberson’s death sentence to be commuted, or the execution delayed 180 days. “We pray that Governor Abbott

The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the US put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

Robert Roberson had been set to be executed on Thursday night for the death of his 2-year-old child. But after a bipartisan intervention by Texas lawmakers, the Supreme Court issued a stay.

In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a lower court’s order halting his execution in a late-night ruling Thursday.

Roberson, 57, was condemned for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the east Texas city of Palestine.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday rejected a clemency request for a man facing execution over a shaken baby syndrome despite doubts over the evidence in the case.