Court Orders Delay of Execution in Texas Shaken Baby Case
Robert Roberson was set to be executed on Thursday evening for the
death of his 2-year-old child. But state legislators obtained a
last-minute court order postponing it.
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The execution by lethal injection, which had been set to occur at a
prison in Huntsville, Texas, would be the first of a person convicted
in a shaken baby case, death penalty experts said. It had been moving
forward after the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a
request for clemency on Wednesday.
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Mr. Roberson's looming execution has drawn intense national scrutiny
because of the role that the shaken baby diagnosis played in his
conviction. His lawyers maintain that no crime was committed at all
and have presented evidence and expert testimony that his daughter,
Nikki, most likely died in 2002 from pneumonia exacerbated by
medication she had been prescribed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/texas-execution-robert-roberson.html
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