HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of ...

Robert Roberson of Texas is scheduled to die by lethal injection despite doubts over shaken baby syndrome, the scientific ...

Roberson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole’s six members voted unanimously to deny the request. The decision came as lawmakers ...

Roberson, 57, was condemned for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the east Texas city of ...

The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...

The clemency petition filed Sept. 17 asked for Roberson’s death sentence to be commuted, or the execution delayed 180 days to ...

Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" ...

The action by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals comes one day before Texas inmate Robert Roberson is scheduled for ...

A Texas man could become the first person executed on Thursday on a case based shaken baby syndrome even though a detective ...

A Texas judge has upheld the execution of a father convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter — despite a growing number of ...