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Robert Robertson execution day set in Texas shaken baby case
- rossant 2y agoInnocence Project [1]: > Palestine, Texas (July 1, 2024) — A broad and diverse group of eminent scientists, medical doctors, faith leaders, former federal judges, best-selling novelist John Grisham, and the former lead detective on the case oppose the execution of Robert Roberson, an innocent father who has spent over 20 years on Texas’s death row for a crime that never occurred and a conviction based on the outdated and now debunked shaken baby hypothesis. > At the request of the Anderson County District Attorney, the 3rd Judicial District Court in Anderson County today set an execution date of October 17, 2024 for Mr. Roberson, despite overwhelming new evidence showing that Mr. Roberson’s daughter, Nikki, died of natural and accidental causes. Mr. Roberson would be the first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby hypothesis unless the courts or Governor Greg Abbott intervenes. The court set the execution date without granting Mr. Roberson’s previously-filed request for a hearing. See also [2-4]. [1] https://innocenceproject.org/texas-sets-october-execution-date-for-robert-roberson-an-innocent-man-wrongly-convicted-under-debunked-shaken-baby-hypothesis/ https://innocenceproject.org/texas-sets-october-execution-da... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750146 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458662 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402