Entries tagged with “John Grisham”

Oct 07, 2025

New Evidence Revealed in ​“Dateline” Podcast Points to Judicial Misconduct in Robert Roberson’s Case Just Days Ahead of Execution

Attorneys for Robert Roberson filed a Notice of New Evidence with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on October 6, 2025, bring­ing to light new evi­dence uncov­ered by NBC’s​“Dateline” pod­cast, released on the same day as the fil­ing, that they say sub­stan­ti­ates a pend­ing judi­cial mis­con­duct claim in his case. This fil­ing comes just nine days before Mr. Roberson’s sched­uled exe­cu­tion on October 16, 2025. According to the fil­ings, Larry Bowman, the mater­nal grandfather of…

Sep 23, 2025

New Book of Interest: SHAKEN: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man by John Grisham

Acclaimed nov­el­ist and for­mer crim­i­nal defense lawyer John Grisham is set to release a new book titled *SHAKEN: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man* on June 9th, 2026. The book is a non-fic­­tion account of the con­tentious case of Robert Roberson, the Texas man who has been on death row for over twen­ty years and is now fac­ing exe­cu­tion in Texas in October 2025, despite strong evi­dence of his inno­cence. > ​“Robert Roberson is inno­cent because the evi­dence devel­oped in recent…