Update from Robert Roberson: The Texas Supreme Court rules against lawmakers who halted the execution with a last-minute subpoena

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution, after Republican and Democratic lawmakers last month used the new maneuver to interrupt Robert Roberson’s lethal injection at the last minute.

The video above is from our previous report.

Roberson was scheduled to die by lethal injection on October 17 when lawmakers, in a last-ditch effort, issued a subpoena to have him testify at the Texas Capitol days after his scheduled execution.

This created a legal conundrum between the state’s criminal and civil courts, ultimately leading to the Texas Supreme Court temporarily ruling in Roberson’s favor.

Roberson, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter, has received bipartisan support from lawmakers and medical experts who say he was convicted based on faulty evidence of a shaken baby diagnosis. If Roberson is executed, he will be the first person in the United States to die from shaken baby syndrome.

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