This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine.
The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic process.scheduled to be executed on Oct. 17
The strong showing of support from both sides of the aisle for a condemned person is unusual in Texas, which has executed more people than any other state since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s. But legislators also recently rallied behind Texas death row prisoners Rodney Reed — whose request for a hearing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court was, whose execution was halted in 2022 but whose case remains pending after a trial judge recommended her conviction be overturned in April.
Roberson was convicted in 2003 by an Anderson County jury of killing his 27-month-old daughter Nikki. On the morning of January 31, 2002, Roberson rushed the young girl — who was chronically ill and had made multiple trips to the emergency room with a high fever and other symptoms in the weeks before she died — to the Palestine Regional Medical Center, saying he had found her lying blue and limp after a short fall from their bed.
These days, most medical professionals will consider a child’s whole medical history and prior injuries before diagnosing abuse, and in 2021, Texas lawmakers passed agiving parents the right to obtain a second medical opinion on the state’s dime before a child can be removed from the home based on medical suspicion of abuse. Roberson has stared down one previous execution date.
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