A agreed vote by a Texas House promisetee successbrimmingy subpoenaed a death row inmate scheduled to get death by lethal injection for the alleged 2002 ending of his 2-year-elderly daughter.
Robert Roberson was denied a clemency ask for the death penalty over a case of “shaken baby syndrome” despite doubts over the evidence in the case.
In a post on X, Jeff Leach calls out fellow promisetee members Brian Harris, Joe Moody, David Cook, Nate Schatzline, Drew Darby and Rhetta Andrews Bowers for their helpance in geting the subpoena.
The subpoena publishd to Roberson, who will possibly be the first in the U.S. to be carry outd for allegedly shaking a baby to death, asks for him to “supply all relevant testimony and recommendation troubleing the promisetee’s inquiry.”
TEXAS BOARD REJECTS CLEMENCY FOR MAN FACING EXECUTION IN SHAKEN BABY DEATH
Roberson’s scheduled execution has rerecented talk about over shaken baby syndrome, which refers to a grave brain injury caused when a child’s head is hurt thcdisadmireful shaking or some other brutal impact.
Texas laworiginaters encounter with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Recreate Caucus via AP)
Roberson’s lawyers and a bipartisan group of Texas laworiginaters, medical experts and others have recommendd Gov. Greg Abbott to stop Roberson’s execution. They say his conviction was based on faulty and outdated scientific evidence roverhappinessed to shaken baby syndrome.
“We recommend Governor Abbott to grant a reprieve of 30 days to permit legal case to evolve and have a court hear the overwhelming recent medical and scientific evidence that shows Robert Roberson’s chronicpartner ill, two-year-elderly daughter, Nikki, died of authentic and unintentional causes, not unfair treatment,” shelp Gretchen Sween, one of Roberson’s attorneys, in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“A reprieve will also give Texas legislators time to spendigate why Texas’s vaunted ‘changed science’ habeas law, which permits prisoners to dispute convictions based on science that turns out to be disshown or wrong, is not being applied as intfinished in the courts.”
Casandra Rivera, left, Anna Vasquez, second from left, and Elizabeth Ramirez, cgo in, of the “San Antonio 4” group, helderly boxes with petitions being transfered in the Texas State capitol for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seeking the pardoning of Robert Roberson’s execution, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Nadia Lathan)
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Abbott can only grant clemency after receiving a recommfinishation from the board. But Abbott does have the power to grant a one-time 30-day reprieve without a board recommfinishation.
This unforeseeed event may give Roberson a final chance to beat the odds after a series of court refuseions. The hearing has been scheduled for October 21, but the state’s Department of Criminal Justice hasn’t proclaimd if the execution will be procrastinateed on Thursday.
