Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality.
A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country's first execution for 'shaken baby syndrome,' a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, Robert Roberson told NBC News anchor Lester Holt in an interview airing Thursday that he is urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to pardon him and 'let me go home.
In 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the name of shaken baby syndrome to the more broadly defined 'abusive head trauma' to include injuries caused by mechanisms other than shaking alone. But even experts who support the scientific validity of abusive head trauma, like Dr.
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