Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested death row inmate Robert Roberson, whose execution date was delayed last year after his case became a political lightning rod, be executed on Oct. 16. A hearing is set for 10 a.

Robert Roberson, an autistic man on death row, could learn more about his fate this week as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pushes the state to schedule his execution date. Judge Austin Reeve Jackson was recently assigned to take over the case,