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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nadia Lathan

Texas man whose execution was halted in shaken baby case is again stopped from testifying

Death Penalty Report - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A second attempt by Texas lawmakers to bring a man on death row to the state Capitol over doubts that he killed his 2-year-old daughter failed again Friday, dimming the likelihood of Robert Roberson testifying publicly after a last-minute subpoena halted his execution.

Roberson, who had been scheduled to be die by lethal injection in October, would be the first person in the U.S. to be executed over a conviction tied to shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that medical experts have questioned.

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