HUNTSVILLE — A Travis County judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday, pausing the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson.

A judge has granted a request from Texas lawmakers to delay the execution of a man scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

A Texas House Committee voted to subpoena Roberson after his scheduled death amid a flurry of eleventh-hour legal maneuvers.

Texas state lawmakers subpoenaed Roberson to testify in a bid to block his execution in a case centered on “shaken baby syndrome” science that has since been refuted.

Leach said over 80 legislators signed a letter "calling for the pause button into Roberson's execution," believing his testimony is vitally necessary. The subpoena came after the

Robert Roberson, a condemned man whose execution was halted, is expected to appear in person Monday at a legislative hearing in Austin, Texas.

Texas' highest criminal court overturned a lower court's ruling Thursday to temporarily halt Robert Roberson's execution, putting his fate in limbo.

In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of Death Row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a lower court’s order halting the execution in a late-night ruling Thursday.