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Execution looms for Texas man allegedly convicted by ‘junk science’
Robert Roberson was convicted of killing daughter through ‘shaken baby syndrome’ – supporters say there was no crime
Robert Roberson, whom advocates say was wrongfully convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter more than two decades ago, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Thursday amid claims that his conviction was secured with junk science.
Roberson, 57, brought his daughter Nikki Curtis to hospital in Palestine, Texas, on 31 January 2002. He told doctors that she was ill with fever and had fallen from a bed.
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