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.

  • Boinkage@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article. Shaken baby syndrome was fabricated by a handful of iffy doctors and has never been substantiated. Child abuse prosecutors have clung to it and propped it up because it makes for (inaccurate) open and shut convictions. Very few symptoms in the medical field are as cut and dry as what SBS claims is true.