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

**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 dis­cred­it­ed​“Shaken…

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…