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If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...
Texas officials are seeking a new execution date for Robert Roberson, convicted in 2003 for his daughter’s death, allegedly from shaken baby syndrome. His lawyers argue the science behind the ...
A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to ...
The Texas Attorney General’s Office has requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson III, the East Texas man who narrowly avoided being put to death last year in a case that upended the state’s ...
While many paediatricians consider shaken baby syndrome to be a legitimate cause of injury, the American Association of Pediatrics acknowledged in an April 2020 publication that some in medical ...
Robert Roberson's "shaken baby syndrome" case also went to the Supreme Court. In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on what some ...
The Texas House has set a date to hear testimony from Robert Roberson, convicted of murdering his daughter based on a questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. By J. David Goodman The case ...
The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday halted the execution of a man who was set to be the nation’s first person to be executed for a “shaken baby” death after a day of legal maneuvers ...
The scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III in Texas was halted by the state’s highest court late Thursday following an extraordinary sequence of maneuvers by members of the state ...
In 2020, as more shaken baby syndrome convictions were being challenged, the group said these changes were “misinterpreted by some in the legal and medical communities as an indication of some ...
Texas is preparing to put a man to death Thursday in what would be the nation’s first execution involving a case of “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that has been re-evaluated in more ...
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. The Texas Board of Parole on ...