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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Kayla Guo

Robert Roberson files first new appeal since his execution was delayed

Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at TDCJ Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in Huntsville, about 43 miles away.
Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at the state prison's Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. (Credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project)

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson filed a new appeal with the state’s highest criminal court on Wednesday in his first attempt to overturn his death sentence since an unprecedented intervention by a state legislative committee delayed his execution in October.

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