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After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution should be further delayed because of a pending appeal to the state's highest criminal court.

A court hearing on Wednesday will determine whether to proceed with Paxton’s request.

The Texas Attorney General's office has taken over the Roberson case from the Anderson County District Attorney and has requested Roberson be immediately added to the death row calendar.

Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to delay legal proceedings until Jan. 13 — the day before the committee disbands — even as lawmakers vowed to continue fighting to hear from Roberson.

The new subpoena comes after lawmakers say Ken Paxton’s office stalled a previous effort to get Roberson’s legislative testimony about his conviction in 'shaken baby' case.

The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee plans to issue a new subpoena to the death row inmate for a Dec. 20 hearing if Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office does not cooperate.

Senior District Judge Deborah Oakes Evans recused herself after a challenge to her impartiality over longtime relationships with case prosecutors and judges.

The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence summoned Roberson to testify about his case, which successfully stayed his October execution with help from the Texas Supreme Court. But the high court says the House overstepped it's authority.

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch’s power to carry out the execution.

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the innocent.

The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of Criminal Appeals judge about a new trial for the death row inmate.

Leach, one of the driving forces behind the effort to stop Roberson’s execution, later apologized to the judge, who told the lawmaker there were still pending matters before the court.