A judge granted a request to delay the execution of a man scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

The late-night ruling to spare for now the life of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, capped a flurry of last-ditch legal challenges and weeks of public pressure from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers who say he is innocent and was sent to death row based on flawed science.

    • 3ntranced@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Been watching the updates on Houston News, from the sound of it this is just a futal scramble to make up a reason because the diagnosing doctor has had more than a decade to have a change of heart. It’s going to go through soon enough.

      The dude shook a baby. Pneumonia or not, the child died of being shaken by this walmart brand Steve Buscemi looking fuck. His life, in my eyes, is null and void the second she died.