US EditionProsecutors ask for new execution date for Texas man in shaken baby syndrome case
TEXAS, JUN 18 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks Oct. 16 execution date for Robert Roberson despite pending appeals citing new scientific evidence challenging his conviction for shaken baby syndrome.
- Prosecutors have asked for a new execution date for Robert Roberson, who was set to be the first executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction linked to shaken baby syndrome.
- The Texas Attorney General's Office stated that the conditions for setting an execution date have been met due to prior denied appeals.
- Roberson's legal team presented new evidence suggesting the girl's death was not a homicide, claiming 'no rational juror would find Roberson guilty of capital murder.'
- Gretchen Sween, Roberson's attorney, criticized the Attorney General's office for seeking a new execution date despite a pending appeal that includes 'powerful new evidence of his innocence.
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Robert Roberson Faces New Execution Date in Controversial ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case
Attorneys for Robert Roberson and for the State of Texas went toe-to-toe in a Palestine courtroom Wednesday, arguing over the fate of the man whose 2024 execution date was halted in a dramatic eleventh-hour intervention by state legislators—and whose appeals have raised the question of whether a crime occurred at all. After hearing arguments, Smith County District Court Judge Austin Reeve Jackson, who is new to the case and is described in campa…
Texas to ask for new execution date for death row inmate Robert Roberson at hearing
A hearing Wednesday will determine whether Texas can proceed with a new execution date for Roberson, who would be the first put to death in the United States in a case of so-called shaken baby syndrome.
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During her appeal trial in Colmar, Upper Rhine, a former nanny was sentenced this Friday to 12 years in prison for killing a baby she was guarding by shaking him violently.
Paxton requests new execution date for Robert Roberson, death row inmate from Palestine
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, the East Texas man whose execution was delayed last year after his case became a political lightning rod that shook up the state’s judicial system.
Robert Roberson's attorney reacts to Paxton's request for new execution date
PALESTINE, Texas (KETK) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a Palestine man on death row who was convicted for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki, by shaken baby syndrome. Texas committee issues second subpoena for death row inmate Robert Roberson Roberson's attorney Gretchen Sween sat down with KETK News on Tuesday to discuss the objection she's filed against Paxton's reques…
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