Entries tagged with “Charles Ray Crawford”

Oct 08, 2025

Upcoming Executions Illustrate Persistent Themes and Concerns Around the Death Penalty

**October 9, 2025 UPDATE****: On October** **9****,** **2025****, just a week before his sched­uled exe­cu­tion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (****CCA****) grant­ed** **Robert Roberson** **a stay of exe­cu­tion and remand­ed his case to the dis­trict court for fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion of his request for relief based upon relief offered in a sim­i­lar case,** ***Ex parte Roark******.*** **Like Mr. Roberson’s case,** ***Ex parte Roark*****, also involved a con­vic­tion based the now…