Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A juror who helped convict an autistic death row inmate whose execution was dramatically stopped four days ago has told a group of lawmakers she now believes he is innocent and his life should be ...
The court found scientific opinion about "shaken baby syndrome" has changed, and a man sentenced to 35 years in prison deserves a new trial.
Texas’s Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who was set to die on Thursday, hours before the convicted killer’s execution warrant expired at midnight.. Robert Roberson, 57, was set to ...
In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on ...
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said the state could set a new execution date for a man convicted of murdering his toddler on evidence of "shaken baby syndrome," ruling ...
The execution of Robert Roberson - a Texas man who was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter – faces further delay after the judge in the case voluntarily recused herself. Roberson was ...
She pointed to a 2021 paper that found just 3% of all convictions in shaken baby syndrome cases between 2008 and 2018 were overturned, and only 1% of them were overturned because of medical evidence.
Last week, the appeals court ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to 35 years in prison for his conviction of injury to a child in a case that also relied on a shaken baby syndrome argument.