In a dramatic turnaround, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, which was scheduled to take place in seven days.

The ruling marks a major shift in a case that has drawn national attention over disputed medical evidence and a last-minute legal maneuver in 2024 that halted his execution 90 minutes before it was to be carried out.

Under the court’s decision, Roberson is not receiving the requested new trial to hear the new scientific and medical evidence related to the tragic 2002 death of his then-two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis.

Instead, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded Roberson’s case back to the Anderson County district court to consider whether his case warrants relief based on q

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