WaPo: “Before it’s too late, say a prayer for Robert Roberson. Barring a miracle, he will be killed on Thursday in the death chamber at Texas’s Huntsville Prison. Roberson has spent the past 22 years on death row for a crime that perhaps never occurred, and now Texas is hellbent on executing him.
The death penalty should have no place in a criminal justice system plagued by wrongful convictions. Roberson’s case illustrates the problem. A bipartisan majority of the Texas House — 86 lawmakers — urged the state to grant him clemency. The detective who investigated the death of Roberson’s daughter, Nikki, now lobbies for his release. And Roberson’s legal team has assembled a group of experts — scientists and doctors with impeccable credentials — who contend that his conviction was based on the since-refuted application of “shaken baby syndrome” theory. All agree that his daughter probably died of viral pneumonia, not physical abuse.”