In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely ...

Courts in Texas kept blocking Robert Roberson on procedural grounds but never looked at how “shaken baby” science has evolved ...

Many advocates see the effort to pause Roberson’s execution as an important test case. The 57-year-old death row inmate could become the first person ever executed based on a shaken baby diagnosis.

The path to stopping the country’s first execution based on the refuted theory known as “shaken baby syndrome” narrowed Wednesday after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. under a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome HOUSTON -- A Texas man this week could become the ...

Plus, the Texas Supreme Court halted the execution of Robert Roberson in Texas in a case involving "shaken baby syndrome." ...

The inmate’s attorneys call that a misdiagnosis – and also discredit shaken baby syndrome on its face, despite broad consensus among pediatricians it is legitimate. The lawyers say ...

Roberson, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, Oct. 17, in connection with Nikki's death, which prosecutors claim was a result of shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that ...

Robert Roberson could be the first person put to death in connection with shaken baby syndrome. The state’s highest criminal court ruled in another case that the science had changed. By J.

Roberson’s appeal is based on new evidence that doctors misdiagnosed the cause of death and scientific doubts on whether shaken baby syndrome even exists. The government plans to put Roberson ...

Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: ...