October 18, 2024
Texas Supreme Court Stays Execution of Autistic Man in Shaken Baby Case.
Robert Roberson can be seen through Plexiglas at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Livingston, Texas, on December 19, 2023. — AFP The Texas Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution Thursday for an autistic man whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome.” Robert Roberson, 57, was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Thursday for the February 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki. But the Texas Supreme Court temporarily stayed the execution after an appeal by


