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An execution date has been set for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson. But the “shaken baby syndrome" case is far from ...
A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...
A hearing Wednesday will determine whether Texas can proceed with a new execution date for Roberson, who would be the first ...
In a Wednesday hearing, a Texas judge set a new execution date for Robert Roberson after he was granted a last-minute stay in ...
Judge Reeve Jackson, a visiting judge from Smith County's 114th District Court, set the updated execution date, noting the ...
Wednesday’s decision affirms Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for an October execution date for Roberson, whose case has ...
Roberson was found guilty in 2003 of murdering his 2-year-old daughter Nikki, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers say the ...
Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as shaken baby syndrome.
The former police detective who initially helped to convict Roberson now says he believes investigators succumbed to confirmation bias.
A district court judge on July 16 set a new execution date for Texas death-row inmate Robert Roberson despite an effort by a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers to reexamine the evidence ...
Robert Roberson was spared in the eleventh hour when the TX Criminal Jurisprudence Committee stopped the scheduled execution. He is facing the death penalty for the killing of his 2-year-old in 2002.