The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of Robert Roberson a week before it was scheduled to occur.

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt has debuted a new podcast taking an in-depth look at the case of Robert Roberson, a man convicted of murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter and set to be executed on Oct.

A new podcast by NBC reveals that the judge that presided over Robert Roberson’s trial was the same judge that allowed his daughter to be removed from life support.

For 22 years, Robert Roberson has been on death row, and on Oct. 16, he's scheduled to be executed. But, Roberson's legal team is using new evidence to ask for a new trial before its too late