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Victoria Bekiempis and Sam Levin

FOUND: Execution looms for texas man allegedly convicted by junk science | Mind Blowing Facts

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Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, last month. Photograph: AP

The Texas supreme court has blocked the execution of a man on death row in a late-night ruling on the day of the scheduled lethal injection.

Robert Roberson, 57, was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter more than two decades ago, but his supporters across the US and the lead detective on the case have insisted he is innocent and that the case rested on junk science.

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