Death Penalty October 15, 2024 6:08 pm

Lawyers and lawmakers fight to stop Texas from executing Robert Roberson

There are renewed calls for Gov. Greg Abbott to pause the Oct. 17 execution of an East Texas man convicted of shaking his 2-year-old to death more than two decades ago. NBC 5’s David Goins reports attorneys for Robert Roberson and a growing number of state lawmakers say his death sentence is based on ‘junk science’ and took his case to a courtroom in Palestine.

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