A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syn

Judge Reeve Jackson, a visiting judge from Smith County's 114th District Court, set the updated execution date, noting the Court of Criminal Appeals had been sitting on Roberson’s appeal application for five months. Roberson’s attorney argued that the judge couldn’t set a date because his application is still pending.