Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune) ...

LIVINGSTON — A group of bipartisan state lawmakers traveled Friday afternoon to the Allan B. Polunsky Unit to meet, pray and share hope with an East Texas man who has spent the past two decades ...

A combination sink and toilet sit in the open in the recreation room in a section of death row at the Texas prison system’s Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001. The ...

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune ...

FILE - Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012. (AP ...

Stays of Execution Three people must be officially notified of a stay of execution: The CID Director, the Death Row Unit Warden and the Huntsville Unit Warden.

Ex-juror in ‘shaken baby’ case tells hearing Texas death row inmate should not face execution - Robert Roberson was scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the murder of his own daughter ...

The execution of Robert Roberson, an autistic father at the center of a controversial “shaken baby syndrome” case, is set to proceed after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously ...

The death row inmate was transported back to the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston. He had spent a large part of the day near an execution chamber awaiting his fate.

Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades.