Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

Ivan Cantu in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. ... Cantu’s first execution date in 2012 was rescheduled because he was in the middle of federal litigation over his case.

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.

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. Texas’ male death ...

news Crime ‘Work worth doing’: Texas lawmakers visit, pray with Robert Roberson as execution nears The 57-year-old is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 17 in Huntsville.

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 ...