As the scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson approaches, calls for clemency and a stay of execution are intensifying. Roberson, convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, is at the center of a contentious case that has raised doubts about the validity of his conviction.
Roberson's advocates argue that the conviction was based on shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis they claim was a misdiagnosis in his case and has since been discredited. They point to evidence suggesting that his daughter, Nikki Curtis, did not die from child abuse but rather from double pneumonia progressing to sepsis, exacerbated by inappropriate medications and a fall from a bed.
