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Texas father’s execution for murder of 2-year-old daughter could be first in US over shaken baby syndrome after judge’s ruling

A Texas judge has ruled to uphold the execution of a father convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter — despite a growing number of voices, including the detective who helped send him to death row,

CBS Dallas on MSN · 4h

Amid calls for intervention, execution looms for Robert Roberson, potentially first in U.S. tied to shaken baby syndrome

Roberson could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome.

NBC DFW · 12h

Execution upheld for Texas man convicted in daughter's ‘shaken baby' death

Robert Roberson, convicted of killing his daughter, is scheduled to die Thursday by lethal injection after a district court upheld his execution warrant.

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The Texas Tribune on MSN · 6h

East Texas man on death row loses one of his final appeals to stop execution

The state’s highest criminal court’s refusal to stay the Oct. 17 execution leaves the Palestine man with few options amid widespread support for clemency.

Beaumont Enterprise on MSN · 10h

Last hope for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, scheduled for execution on October 17

Just hours before Robert Roberson's execution on Thursday, Oct. 17, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will make a clemency decision on Wednesday, Oct. 16.

Houston Chronicle on MSN · 9h

Texas court denies death row inmate Roberson's motion to vacate execution warrant and recuse judge

A Texas court has denied a motion to vacate an execution warrant for death row inmate Robert Roberson for the murder of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. In two days, Roberson will die in what experts describe as the first execution in the United States based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis.

He was sentenced to death after his toddler died. Now, shaken baby syndrome is at the heart of Robert Roberson’s 11th-hour appeals

The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...

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Execution date for East Texas inmate convicted in 'shaken baby death' remains set for Thursday

Robert Roberson III, 57, was sentenced to death in 2003 in connection with the death of his daughter Nikki Curtis, but he ...

Texas prepares to execute Robert Roberson, an innocent man, for a crime that never took place

Roberson has argued since his conviction that he is the victim of a justice system that wrongly attributed his daughter’s tragic death to “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) and falsely pointed to him as the ...

What We Know About Robert Roberson—and the Appeals to His Upcoming Execution

Roberson is set to be executed by the State of Texas on Thursday, Oct. 17, amid outcry from some lawmakers and advocates.

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