MYSTERIOUS: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Junk Science, ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome,’ and the Fate of Robert Roberson

An East Texas man could soon become the nation's first person killed by the state based on the controversial hypothesis.

Texas Observer · Sep 11, 2024

Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US supreme court appeal

Robert Roberson was sentenced in 2003 for killing toddler on basis of shaken baby syndrome, now ruled as ‘scientifically unreliable’

The Guardian - US · Oct 2, 2023

Texas death row inmate at mercy of supreme court – and junk science

Robert Roberson was convicted of murdering his two-year-old daughter on the basis of the now largely discredited shaken baby syndrome theory

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2023