Overview

• The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed a motion last month requesting an Oct. 16 execution date, one year after Roberson’s previous warrant was halted
• Roberson’s attorneys contend scheduling a date now is premature because a habeas corpus petition remains pending at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
• His 2003 conviction for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter rested on a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis that experts have since deemed junk science
• A last-minute intervention by the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and a Texas Supreme Court review stopped his original Oct. 17, 2024 execution
• Advocates and bipartisan lawmakers view the case as a test of forensic reliability in capital convictions and a spotlight on potential wrongful death penalty sentences