The deaths of Fort Worth rapper G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter shocked North Texans earlier this year. Police say two men opened fire on Ronnie Sibley at a Forest Hill car wash, killing ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the TDCJ Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

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Robert Roberson waits to be interviewed in a locked visitation cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. [AP Photo/Annie Mulligan] The machinery of the ...

The number of people facing the death penalty in Texas continues to decline, with four people sentenced to death in 2017. This is the third year in a row in which less than five death sentence ...

Robert Roberson listens as his lawyers plead his case on July 16, 2025. A new execution date of Oct. 16, 2025 was set by presiding Judge Austin Jackson of Smith County at the Anderson County ...

Texas, which historically drives the number of executions nationwide, is approaching a grim milestone of 600 people put to death by lethal injection since the early 1980s. But for the past 10 years, a ...

A Texas court has again granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long claimed he is innocent in the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis, saying his ...