How a Podcast Could Spare the Life of a Convicted Death Row Inmate

The state of Texas is set to execute 58-year-old Robert Roberson
next week, but his attorneys have filed a last minute request for
a new trial based on a recent Dateline podcast. Roberson would be
the first person to ever be put to death for shaken baby
syndrome, following the 2002 death of his 2 year old daughter
Nikki. The science he was convicted on is no longer regarded and
is considered “junk science.”  That information alone
brought lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to intervene last
year, to stay his execution, but that stay is up and Roberson
time is up. Now, baby Nikki’s maternal grandfather is speaking
up, telling a story, if true, of egregious conduct by the judge
in this case from the hospital where Nikki died, all the way to
the courtroom he presided over in Roberson’s trial.


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