HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court has again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death in a shaken baby case. The execution stay was granted on Thursday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Roberson had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection Oct. 16. This was the third execution date Roberson’s lawyers have been able to stay since 2016. Nearly a year ago, an unprecedented intervention by a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers stayed an earlier scheduled execution. Prosecutors say Roberson hit and violently shook his 2-year-old daughter. Roberson has long proclaimed his innocence.
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