Advocates of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson are pleading for the state to halt its plans to execute him Thursday for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter – a crime Roberson says he did not commit.

A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the state lawmakers who believe he may have been wrongly convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter and secured him an extraordinary reprieve.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday night reversed an order by a Travis County judge who had issued a temporary restraining order halting the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson.