Robert Roberson hopes he can again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
With days to go before his scheduled October 16 execution, Roberson maintained his innocence in the 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the East Texas city of Palestine. He is set to die by lethal injection nearly a year to the day after a group of Texas lawmakers, who say he is innocent, secured an extraordinary last-minute court reprieve as Roberson waited outside the death chamber in Huntsville.
