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Texas Supreme Court clears way for new execution date for Robert Roberson in 2-year-old daughter’s death. Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Dakin Andone, CNN. November 15, 2024 at 6:28 PM.
On Monday, a judge set a new execution date for Roberson: Oct. 17. Community pushes for Roberson's acquittal. ... titled "Stop the Oct. 17 execution of Robert Roberson, an innocent father," has ...
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.
By midnight Thursday, Roberson’s death warrant dictating the date of the execution had expired, and a spokesperson for the department confirmed a judge would need to order a new date.
The committee’s members argued before a judge in Austin on Thursday, less than two hours before Roberson’s scheduled execution, that they needed to hear from Roberson about whether a 2013 law created to allow prisoners to challenge their convictions based on new scientific evidence was ignored in his case.
Robert Roberson, shown in December 2023 through plexiglass at a prison in Livingston, Texas, faces an execution date of Oct. 17, 2024. New evidence has cast doubt on his conviction for the death ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 February 16, 2028 Stanley Theodore Adams: 61 33 28 Male White Ohio: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 March 15, 2028 John E. Drummond: 50 25 25 Black Profile: 3 April 19, 2028 James Galen Hanna: 78 48 30 White Profile: 4 June 21, 2028
Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on outdated and largely discredited scientific evidence. ... When this issue went to press, a new execution date had not been set for Roberson. But the ...