Execution Scheduled For Texas Death Row Inmate Convicted In 'shaken Baby' Case As Lawyers Maintain Innocence

A Texas man connected decease statement is now scheduled to beryllium put to decease successful October for his condemnation successful nan decease of his 2-year-old girl successful 2002, aft his execution was delayed past twelvemonth amid concerns astir whether he is guilty.

Robert Roberson's caller execution day was group for Oct. 16 astatine 6 p.m., according to Judge Austin Reeve Jackson, who said it's nan "reality of wherever we are." The caller execution day is simply a twelvemonth aft his first execution day was paused aft a push from a bipartisan group of authorities lawmakers, among others.

Attorneys for Roberson, 58, criticized nan judge's ruling, arguing that important grounds shows he did not termination his daughter, Nikki Curtis, much than 2 decades agone successful a lawsuit of nan shaken babe presumption they opportunity has been wide discredited.

"Texans should beryllium outraged that nan tribunal has scheduled an execution day for a demonstrably guiltless man," his attorney, Gretchen Sween, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

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Robert Roberson's caller execution day was group for Oct. 16 astatine 6 p.m. (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP)

"Everyone who has taken nan clip to look astatine nan grounds of Robert Roberson’s innocence—including nan lead detective, 1 of nan jurors, a scope of highly qualified experts, and a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers—has reached nan aforesaid conclusion: Nikki’s decease was a unspeakable tragedy. Robert did not termination her. There was nary crime," she continued.

More than 80 authorities lawmakers, arsenic good arsenic nan detective who helped nan prosecution, aesculapian experts, parental authorities groups, quality authorities groups, bestselling novelist John Grisham and different advocates person called for nan authorities to grant Roberson clemency complete nan belief that he is innocent. A group of authorities lawmakers besides visited Roberson successful situation past twelvemonth to promote him.

Sween said she would activity a enactment of Roberson’s execution "so each of nan grounds that proves he is guiltless tin beryllium reviewed by nan courts without nan unit of a looming execution date."

If he is put to death, Roberson would beryllium nan first personification successful nan U.S. to beryllium executed successful a lawsuit based connected shaken babe syndrome.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton precocious asked nan tribunal to schedule Roberson’s execution contempt nan authorities Court of Criminal Appeals still considering caller grounds astir his imaginable innocence, Sween noted.

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Texas lawmakers meet pinch Robert Roberson astatine a situation successful Livingston, Texas, connected Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Criminal Justice Reform Caucus)

Roberson was convicted aft prosecutors based on he killed his girl by shaking her to death. But his lawyers person said Nikki really died from different wellness issues specified arsenic pneumonia and that caller grounds proves his innocence. His lawyers besides said doctors had grounded to norm retired these different aesculapian explanations for nan child's symptoms.

"I judge he is guiltless for 2 chopped reasons," Sween told Fox News Digital past year. "The mentation that location was a crime that was utilized to convict him, which was past known arsenic nan shaken babe syndrome hypothesis, has been thoroughly discredited. There is nary 1 now who would opportunity nan type of that presumption that was put earlier his assemblage arsenic if it were technological truth is legitimate."

"Also, I cognize from nan experts that had dug into his daughter's aesculapian records and examined nan grounds that this exceedingly sick kid died from undiagnosed pneumonia that was [ravaging] her lungs, mixed pinch very vulnerable medicine medications she was fixed successful nan past fewer days of her life," she continued. "And it's not to propose that doctors did this intentionally. It's conscionable they didn't cognize astir nan pneumonia."

Roberson was scheduled to beryllium put to decease connected Oct. 17, 2024, earlier nan state Supreme Court issued a enactment to hold his execution soon earlier it was group to return place.

Robert Roberson and his daughter, Nikki. (Roberson Family)

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The authorities House Committee connected Criminal Jurisprudence issued a lawsuit nan time earlier Roberson's scheduled execution for him to attest astatine a proceeding astir his case. The authorities Supreme Court paused nan execution that nighttime to reappraisal nan committee's request.

The tribunal said successful November that nan committee should beryllium allowed to perceive his testimony, arsenic agelong arsenic a lawsuit does not artifact an inevitable execution.

Roberson did not look astatine consequent House committee meetings aft Paxton's agency pushed to forestall him from testifying astatine nan authorities Capitol.