The governor has publicly remained silent as pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for him to step in on behalf of ...

In a Texas House hearing about a junk science law, a juror who voted to convict death row inmate Robert Roberson said she ...

The Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that stopped the ...

The three-page letter sent Sunday by James Sullivan, Abbott’s general counsel, said only the governor has the constitutional ...

It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who ...

A juror in Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s 2003 capital murder trial on Monday told the legislative panel that ...

The Palestine, Texas man, 57, came within minutes of being put to death Thursday night before the state Supreme Court ...

The governor's brief tells the state's Supreme Court that the Texas Constitution only grants him the power to grant clemency.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence “stepped out of line” by subpoenaing death row ...

Robert Roberson is set Thursday evening to be the first person executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson is expected to testify before Texas state lawmakers after his execution was halted last week ...

Getty Images/NBC 5 News Greg Abbott, left, and Robert Roberson, right Sullivan wrote that if the committee wanted testimony from Roberson, it could have requested that testimony at any point before ...