Jamal is the justice correspondent for Scripps News. He has found a home in criminal and social justice reporting, focusing largely on incarcerated and marginalized communities.
Time is running out for Robert Roberson. The 57-year-old could become the first person in U.S. history to be executed for a murder conviction tied to 'shaken baby syndrome' — a diagnosis critics call junk science.In an interview with CNN Roberson said, 'I carried her to the hospital, I didn't have nothing to hide. I might not have been prepared like I should have been, you know. But yes, I did love her.
Brian Wharton, the former lead detective who arrested Roberson, has also spoken out on his behalf worried he helped put an innocent man behind bars.According to the Death Penalty Information Center at least eight people have been sentenced to death because of shaken baby syndrome. Two of those cases ended with exonerations.
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