PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - A judge has set an Oct. 16 execution date for Robert Roberson. Judge Reeve Jackson, a Smith County district judge who was recently appointed the judge of the case ...

During the roughly 20-minute hearing in Anderson County court, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson — a Smith County district judge who took over the case after a retired judge recused herself — heard ...

A judge has set an Oct. 16 execution date for Robert Roberson. After hearing arguments from both side, Jackson said, “the court has to balance a justice system” and set an execution date for Oct. 16.