Gretchen Swinn

I spoke with Brian by Zoom hours before he headed to the prison.

to be with him, to make sure he knows that he's not alone.

I don't know if you'll have a chance to communicate with Robert before the execution, but what is your message to him?

Soon after we spoke, Brian arrived at Huntsville and was led inside.

His phone confiscated.

No updates, no news.

He and a handful of Robert's supporters were taken to a waiting room.

They prayed together.

Brian remembers it was cold and quiet.

I can't imagine what it feels like to be in Robert's shoes.

Meanwhile, Gretchen Swinn, Roberts' lawyer, was throwing anything she could at the courts.

She filed an emergency plea with the U.S.

Supreme Court.

It was denied.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing, "...few cases more urgently call for such a remedy than one where the accused has made a serious showing of actual innocence, as Robertson has here."

shortly after 4.30 p.m., a jolt of hope, just as I was about to go on the air.

There is breaking news from Texas right now, where a civil court judge has temporarily halted tonight's scheduled execution of Robert Robertson.

It didn't last long.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton struck back.

Paxton rushed to the Court of Criminal Appeals.