Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

High-security inmates at 19 prisons went on a weekslong lockdown last month after two prisoners were killed at the East Texas lockup that houses death row. Just outside of Livingston, the Polunsky ...

The order was praised by Texas legislators who have questioned the science behind the death row inmate’s 2003 capital murder ...

The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended Wednesday for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to close some correctional facilities with staffing ...

Robert Roberson hopes he will again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

LIVINGSTON, Texas (KTRE) - A man convicted in the 2014 machete slaying of a Houston-area teen was murdered in his cell at Polunsky prison. According to a report from the Attorney General’s office, ...

Robert Roberson’s death penalty case has gained national attention for being based on the outdated science of “shaken baby ...

Just days before his scheduled execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay to Rob Roberson, a Texas death ...

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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. Roberson, who has maintained his innocence on ...