Members of the Texas House have taken legal action to delay the execution of a death row inmate convicted of killing his daughter in shaken baby syndrome case.

The last-minute decision comes in response to a legal maneuver in which a House committee voted to subpoena Roberson after his scheduled death.

Robert Roberson, who had been set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome, had his execution delayed after a dramatic