Texas state representatives released a 16-page response to an Office of the Attorney General who has called on Robert Roberson to be executed.
A bipartisan group of Texas state representatives are speaking out after Attorney General Ken Paxton criticized lawmakers for defending a death row inmate.Robert Roberson was set to be executed last week for murdering his daughter, Nikki, in East Texas in 2002.That execution was halted so that Roberson could testify to members of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.Paxton accused State Rep.
On Friday morning, state lawmakers called the OAG's report "misleading and in large part simply untrue."The 16-page response directly addresses claims made in the OAG report and details evidence and questions that have been raised in Roberson's case."We know that the laws our legislature created to correct those problems haven’t worked as intended for Robert and people like him. That’s why we’re here and why we won’t quit," reads the letter.
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