H However, the committee is hearing from several witnesses at the meeting where Roberson was scheduled to appear, including Dr. Phil and renowned author John Grisham. At issue in the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence's hearing is whether lawmakers need to overhaul a decade-old law meant to provide recourse for people convicted based on flawed science,

A death row inmate in Texas is scheduled to appear before lawmakers after he was spared from execution in a last-minute legal twist. Robert Roberson would have been the first person to be executed in the U.