For more Best Things in Texas coverage, read about the Texas Olympians who dominated at the Paris Games, the greatest show over Earth, the horny toad’s likely comeback, and the Man of the Year, Brisket Powell. For less dignified behavior, read the 2025 Bum Steer Awards. Robert Roberson likely would have died this past fall if not for the actions of a few Republican and Democratic lawmakers. On October 16, a day before the now 58-year-old death row inmate was set to be executed, the legislators subpoenaed him to travel to Austin from the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, in Livingston. In a state that has executed 591 felons since 1982 (more than four times as many as any other state), the move was a legal…
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