After more than 6,100 days in the Arkansas foster care system, 17-year-old Jose has now found his forever family.
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the execution of Robert Roberson, convicted in 2002 for the death of his 2-year-old ...
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution, putting a decisive end to a ...
State lawmakers had stopped Robert Roberson’s execution at the last minute in an unusual legal maneuver.
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against a legislative subpoena that lawmakers used to stave off the execution of Robert ...
The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the southern US state to set a new execution date for an autistic man ...
Roberson was sentenced to back in 2003 for the murder of his two-year-old daughter Nikki Credit: Reuters Quite aside from the disagreement over whether shaken baby diagnoses could be flawed and ...
Years before his case played out, shaken baby syndrome gained huge media attention in the UK following the 1997 trial of 18-year-old British nanny Louise Woodward who was accused of causing the ...
As our scientific understanding of shaken baby syndrome has evolved over the past 20 years, justice requires that courts reexamine old convictions in light of new findings. This is especially true ...
Prosecutors claimed Roberson murdered his daughter by shaking and striking her, resulting in blunt-force trauma, otherwise known as “shaken baby syndrome.” Robert Roberson, 57, photographed ...
More notably, now that there is robust debate around shaken baby syndrome, and at least 32 people in 18 states have been exonerated after wrongful convictions in such cases, the AG’s office is ...