Prisoner sentenced to death over shaken baby syndrome learns fate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Roberson has maintained his innocence in his daughter's death for the more than two decades he has languished on death row, and on August 1, 2024 his attorneys requested that the district court in Anderson County reopen his case.
41% : Roberson has maintained his innocence in his daughter's death for the more than two decades he has languished on death rowShe then retired in December 2022, but continued to preside over Roberson's case after the state's highest criminal court decided in 2023 that doubt over the cause of his daughter's death was not enough to overturn his death sentence.
34% : Robert Roberson, 57, is set to die by lethal injection on October 17 for killing his daughter Nikki at his home in Palestine, East Texas, in 2002.

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