A Hays County jury convicted a former teacher on Oct. 16 of the continuous sexual abuse of a child and sentenced him to life ...

The nation's first execution of a person convicted in a "shaken baby syndrome" case was halted Thursday when Texas' highest ...

A Texas appeals court has paused the execution of Robert Roberson, who was set to be the first in the U.S. executed for a ...

Roberson, of Palestine, has maintained his innocence for more than 22 years on death row and two previous execution dates as ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

This was the third execution date that Robert Roberson's lawyers have been able to stay since 2016, including one scheduled ...

Pawhuska, Oklahoma (AP) — The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five ...

The abuse began in 1982 when the victim was 12 and Morris was a traveling evangelist staying in Hominy, Oklahoma, with her family, according to the statement by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner ...

Robert Morris, founder and former senior pastor of Gateway Church in Texas who served on President Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board in 2016, pleaded guilty on Thursday to five felony counts ...

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent ...