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Dani Allen, center left with microphone, an anti-death penalty advocate, speaks during a protest outside the prison where Robert Roberson was scheduled for execution on October 17, in Huntsville ...
Roberson was set to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis murder conviction on Oct. 17 before the court intervened and a state House committee issued a ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003. He has lost his appeals since. [1] [2]
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Robert Leroy Anderson (December 4, 1969 – March 30, 2003), known as the Duct Tape Killer, was an American murderer, rapist, and self-proclaimed serial killer who was sentenced to death in South Dakota for the murders of Larisa Dumansky and Piper Streyle in 1994 and 1996, respectively. [1]
Roberson was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based on "shaken baby syndrome" evidence, until Texas lawmakers subpoenaed him to testify.
A further two men, including self-proclaimed serial killer Robert Leroy Anderson, killed themselves while on death row. [2] As of 2024, only one death row inmate, Briley Piper, who was also Elijah Page's co-defendant, remains on death row. [19]
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...