Execution of ‘shaken baby’ death row inmate can go ahead despite dramatic reprieve, court rules
The Supreme Court of Texas on Friday paved the way for the potential execution of Robert Roberson, whose planned October 17 execution date for a 2002 murder was postponed at the last minute as a bipartisan group of lawmakers sought his testimony over innocence concerns and faulty science in the case.
Two strikingly similar cases involving decades-old claims of shaken baby syndrome are making news this week. In one, a Dallas County man, Andrew Roark, has been exonerated. In the other, death row ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals cited “changes in science regarding the mechanism of the injury” as the most persuasive ...
The Texas House of Representatives Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence last month issued a subpoena for Robert Roberson to ...
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