A Texas judge has granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate, who faced execution for the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, FOX 7 Austin reported. Robert Roberson, 57, was scheduled to be executed Thursday evening ...

A man in Texas is due on Thursday to become the first executed in the United States for murder attributed to shaken baby syndrome, despite his lawyers and many Texas lawmakers saying the conviction was based on faulty evidence.

The Supreme Court declined to block Texas from executing Robert Roberson, who insists his conviction for murdering his 2-year-old daughter rests upon a debunked version of shaken baby syndrome, but his execution is temporarily on hold under a state court ruling handed down moments beforehand.