Texas House panel subpoenas death row inmate Robert Roberson a second time

Robert Roberson photographed through plexiglass at TDCJ Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Dec. 19, 2023. (Credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project)

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A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state’s prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder conviction, which some legislators say is based on “junk science.”