LIVINGSTON, Texas — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Robert Leslie Roberson, III, who is currently housed on death row in the state’s Polunsky Unit. The court sent the case back to the East Texas Piney Woods trial court in Palestine to consider Roberson’s “new” or “junk” science claim. Roberson’s execution was set for October 16, 2025.
The Lone Star State’s highest criminal court ordered the trial court to address only this claim, doing so in light of its 2024 decision in Ex Parte Roark. The criminal appellate court remanded the Shaken Baby Syndrome case to the trial court to consider the defendan
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