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topicnews · July 17, 2025

Execution that is planned for the inmates “Shaken Baby”, condemned in Texas Death Row in “Shaken Baby”.

Execution that is planned for the inmates “Shaken Baby”, condemned in Texas Death Row in “Shaken Baby”.

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A Texan man in the death cell is to be killed in October for his 2-year-old daughter in 2002 after his execution was delayed last year because he is guilty.

According to judge Austin Reeve Jackson, Robert Roberson's new execution date was determined for October 16 at 6 p.m., who said it was the “reality where we are”. The new execution date is one year after its initial execution date, among other things, makes a cross -party group of state legislators.

The lawyers for Roberson, 58, criticized the decision of the judge and argued that essential evidence showed that he did not kill his daughter Nikki Curtis more than two decades ago in a case of the cuffed baby hypothesis, which they said that they were largely discredited.

“The Texans should be outraged that the court has planned an appointment for an innocent man,” said his lawyer Gretchen Sween in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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Robert Roberson's new execution date was determined for October 16 at 6 p.m. (Reform of the criminal justice caucus about AP)

“Anyone who took the time to consider Robert Roberson's innocence's evidence – including the main detective, one of the jurors, a series of highly qualified experts and a group of cross -party legislators Texas – has come the same conclusion: Nikki's death was terrible.

More than 80 state legislators and the detective, who helped the public prosecutor, medical experts, parental rights groups, human rights groups, bestseller novelist John Grisham and other supporters have asked the state Grant Roberson Clemency About the belief that he is innocent. A group of state legislators also visited Roberson in prison last year to encourage him.

Sween said she would apply for a stay of Roberson's execution, “so that all evidence that prove that he is innocent can be checked by the courts without the pressure of an impending direction”.

If he is killed, Roberson would be the first person in the USA to be executed in a case based on the Shaken Baby Syndrome.

The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, recently asked the court to plan Roberson's execution, although the State Court of Justice continued to consider new evidence of his potential innocence, Sween noted.

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The legislators in Texas meet on Friday, September 27, 2024, with Robert Roberson in a prison in Livingston, Texas,. (AP Photo/Criminal Justice Reform Caucus)

Roberson was convicted after the prosecutors had argued that he killed his daughter by shaking her to death. But his lawyers said that Nikki had actually died of other health problems such as pneumonia and that new evidence prove his innocence. His lawyers also said that doctors had not excluded these other medical explanations for the child's symptoms.

“I think he is innocent for two different reasons,” Sween told Fox News Digital last year. “The theory that there was a crime that was used to condemn him, which was known at the time as a hypothesis of the Shaken Baby Syndrome, was thoroughly discredited. There is now no one who was legitimate.”

“I also know from the experts who were excavated in the medical documents of his daughter [ravaging] Her lungs in combination with very dangerous prescription medication that she had received in the last days of her life, “she continued.” And it should not indicate that the doctors have deliberately done this. It is just that they knew nothing about pneumonia. “

Roberson should be killed on October 17, 2024 before the state's Supreme Court issued a stay to delay its execution shortly before his execution.

Robert Roberson and his daughter Nikki

Robert Roberson and his daughter Nikki. (Roberson family)

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The State House Committee for Criminal Law examination issued a summons the day before Roberson's planned execution so that he could testify to his case during a hearing. The state's Supreme Court paused the execution that night to check the committee's application.

In November, the court said that the committee may hear his testimony as long as a summons do not block inevitable execution.

Roberson did not appear at the following meetings of the House Committee after Paxon's office had pushed to prevent him from saying in the state capital.