The Texas Supreme Court has halted the scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the US put to ...

Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis. His case went to ...

A Travis County judge has issued a temporary injunction that delayed the controversial execution of Robert Roberson, but the ...

The Supreme Court declined to block Texas from executing Robert Roberson, who insists his conviction for murdering his ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.” ...

The clemency petition asked for Robert Roberson’s death sentence to be commuted, or the execution delayed 180 days. “We pray ...

Robert Roberson to be executed today, despite critics' doubts over the potentially flawed 'shaken baby syndrome' diagnosis.

Robert Roberson had been set to be executed on Thursday night for the death of his 2-year-old child. But after a bipartisan ...

A man in Texas is due on Thursday to become the first executed in the United States for murder attributed to shaken baby ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of ...

Robert Roberson is set to die for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. The case underscores broader questions about outdated medical science in criminal convictions.