The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.” ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. under a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of ...

The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...

What is shaken baby syndrome? The diagnosis refers to a serious brain injury caused when a child’s head is injured through shaking or some other violent impact, like being slammed ...

Supporters of death row inmate Robert Roberson say the state is about to execute an innocent man. Roberson was convicted of shaking his child to death.

Robert Roberson, 57, is set to be executed in Texas for a murder conviction related to shaken baby syndrome. His lawyers, alongside experts, claim that the conviction was based on faulty evidence ...

Robert Roberson is scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 17 in what would be the nation’s first execution for the now debunked theory. It claimed that violently shaking a baby can result in fatal brain ...

At least 34 people convicted based on a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis have been exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Starting in the 1980s, shaken baby syndrome was ...

Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old from Texas, could become the first person in the US to be executed for a murder conviction ...

Supporters of death row inmate Robert Roberson say the state is about to execute an innocent man. Roberson was convicted of shaking his child to death. "Shaken baby syndrome" is largely discredited.

On Thursday, Robert Roberson, from the East Texas town of Palestine, is set to become the first person in the United States to be executed on the basis of a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis.