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Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003. He has lost his appeals since. [1] [2]
Roberson is set to be executed by the State of Texas on Thursday, Oct. 17, amid outcry from some lawmakers and advocates. ... Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston ...
Roberson would be the first person in the U.S. to be executed based on a shaken baby diagnosis, said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, an independent research program ...
In October, Robert Roberson, 57, was set to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a murder attributed to internal brain trauma caused by violent shaking. He was convicted of ...
Roberson, who has maintained his innocence, would become the first person in the United States put to death for a murder conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome if the execution goes ahead as planned.
Robert Roberson, 57, was set to be executed in October, but a state House committee, using its investigatory powers, issued a subpoena for Roberson’s testimony, which led the state Supreme Court ...
UPDATE: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals shot down a last-minute motion by a Travis County judge to halt the execution of Robert Roberson. Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court, one of Roberson ...
The execution. Roberson was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of his 2-year-old ... speaks during a protest outside the prison where Robert Roberson was scheduled for execution on October 17 ...