Fearing Texas was preparing to execute a potentially innocent man, state lawmakers tried an admittedly desperate long shot when they issued a subpoena ordering death row inmate Robert Roberson III to appear before a House committee four days after his scheduled lethal injection.

A man whose execution was halted will testify at a legislative hearing about a “junk science” law in Texas that many say should have saved him long ago. The Supreme

Robert Roberson will testify before the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence of the Texas House of Representatives.