Texas Supreme Court halts execution of autistic man

4 weeks ago

The Texas Supreme Court issued a last-minute stay of execution to an autistic man whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome." Robert Roberson, 57, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Thursday for the February 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki. But the