Barring intervention by the courts or the governor, Texas on Thursday is scheduled to execute death row inmate Robert Roberson, who claims he was wrongfully convicted of abusing his 2-year-old daughter until she died.

A unanimous vote by a Texas House committee successfully subpoenaed a death row inmate scheduled to receive death by lethal injection for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for Robert Roberson, set for execution despite claims of wrongful conviction.

One of the biggest moments from Tuesday’s US Senate debate in Texas was about high school sports. For months Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans have charged that Democratic Rep. Colin Allred wants to allow “boys in girls’ sports”—citing,

Cruz sought to link Allred to Vice President Kamala Harris at nearly every opportunity and painted the three-term Dallas congressman as out of step.

In Texas, Rep. Colin Allred went toe-to-toe with Sen. Ted Cruz in their only debate for Cruz’s Senate seat. Former adviser to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger Maura Gillespie and Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky join Ana Cabrera to share their political analysis of the race and its implications across the country.