House members were successful in halting the execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson III. The Supreme Court of Texas granted a stay late Thursday…
The state's legal fight to get the execution carried out faced a midnight CDT deadline when the death warrant authorizing Roberson's execution would expire
Roberson was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at about 6 p.m. Thursday, for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter.Roberson was convicted in 2003 of shaking his daughter, Nikki Curtis, to death in a diagnosis known as shaken baby syndrome. Roberson's attorneys said new evidence suggests that's not what killed the little girl and that his life should be spared.
We have looked at the evidence in this case in depth. Based on the laws we created, we had a much different expectation of how this would go than what actually happened. We will get answers.But the subpoena alone was not enough to stop the execution.
"It's unbelievable that we're at this point, given the unprecedented hearings that we saw yesterday take place in the Texas legislature, given the widespread bipartisan support, and just really overwhelming support from so many people coming forward, recognizing that this is such a problematic case that Robert has a strong claim of innocence, and if this execution goes forward, Texas is going to be executing a man for a crime that never occurred,” said Vanessa Potkin, director of...
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