Lawyers for Robert Roberson say the science used to sentence him to death is questionable
Texas’s highest criminal court on Wednesday declined to stop the execution next month of Robert Roberson , who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter, but who has consistently challenged his conviction on the claim that it was based on questionable science. Without reviewing the merits of Roberson’s claims, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday dismissed both a motion to halt the execution and a new application for relief filed by his attorneys.
Critics have argued that in the decade since the law was codified, it has rarely provided justice as intended for wrongfully convicted individuals. Roberson’s attorneys, in his latest habeas corpus petition denied on Wednesday, cited new evidence and three expert opinions that they said proved that Nikki died of natural and accidental causes — not of head trauma.
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