Fate of death row inmate Robert Roberson still in limbo [Video]

DALLAS — The war of words over the fate of Robert Leslie Roberson III has the lawmakers who are seeking a new trial and the state’s Attorney General airing their respective grievances, and their evidence, on social media.

Attorney General Ken Paxton made his stance clear, titling his post on X, “Office of the Attorney General Sets the Records Straight About Nikki Curtis’s Death, Rebutting Jeff Leach’s and Joe Moody’s Lies About Convicted Child Murderer.”

State Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso) responded by writing “There are no new facts in the OAG’s statement, only a collection of exaggerations, misrepresentations, and full-on untruths completely divorced from fact and context.”

“I would say that things have taken a very dark turn,” said Roberson’s attorney Gretchen Sween.

Paxton, on Wednesday, posted the entire autopsyreport for 2-year-old Nikki Curtis: the autopsy that brought her father Robert Roberson the death penalty in 2003. The …