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Robert Roberson was handcuffed behind his back when he was brought into the Texas death row media interview area.

The guard locked him into a small cell. The cuffs were removed through a thin slot in the steel door. One side of the cell was bulletproof glass, and on the wall was an old-style telephone handset.

I was on the other side of that glass and on the end of the phone. Roberson is used to all this. He's been on death row for over 20 years.

I interviewed Roberson last year when Texas was angling to execute him then. He came within 90 minutes of the lethal injection, but a last-minute legal maneuver saved him.

"I was relieved, not just for myself, but for my lov

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