GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas (KXII) - A Palestine, Texas man received a seven year sentence after pleading guilty to child sex crimes on Thursday. Andrew Hall, 29, was facing three charges of indecency with ...

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...

State district Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set an Oct. 16 execution date for Roberson, who was brought in from death row to attend the hearing in Palestine, Texas.

Palestine is south of Dallas and about a two-hour and 25-minute drive from the gunman's hometown of Allen, Texas. The Powledge Unit is an all-male prison that can hold up to 1,137 inmates.

Roberson, 58, was convicted of the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the East Texas city of Palestine. Prosecutors argued he violently shook his daughter back and forth ...