Livingston, Texas (AP) – Robert Roberson was calm and hopeful when considering his mortality and whether he could again have avoided the first in the United States of the United States to kill the conviction of the conviction associated with the diagnosis of a shocked baby syndrome.
Days before the scheduled October 16th. Exin, Roberson maintained his innocence in 2002. Died his 2 -year -old daughter Nikki Curtis in Eastern Texas in Palestine. Almost one year after the Texas Law Publishers, who says he is innocent, he will die in a deadly injection that says he is innocent, secured an extraordinary delay in last minute as Roberson waited for the death of the Huntsville.
Roberson said his hopes became another execution when he was in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.
“I’m not going to stress and things because I know God has it, you know. He controls. He’s control. No matter what, God, you know, you know, and he has the last opinion, you know,” 58 -year -old Roberson told Associated Press last week when he was sitting behind a glass partition in the polunsky unit in Livingstone.
In an hour -long interview, Roberson said she was thinking about her daughter every day and what life she would have today.
Prosecutors 2003 In Roberson’s trial, he struck his daughter and shocked her severely, causing a severe head injury and that she died of injuries associated with shocked baby syndrome. Roberson’s lawyers and some medical experts say his daughter died not from abuse, but from complications associated with pneumonia. They say his conviction was based on flawedness and now outdated scientific evidence.
The diagnosis of a shaken baby syndrome means serious brain injury caused by a child’s head hurting or other violent effects, such as being stuck at the wall or throwing on the floor.
Roberson’s lawyers said his undiagnosed autism helped to convict him because the authorities and the medical staff thought he was not behaving as a worried father because the impact of his apartment was considered a sign of guilt.
The presence of last -minute execution
Last year, Roberson was on the death penalty when the last minute of the legal maneuvering of his existing execution, including an unprecedented intervention of a double Texas Group, remained his fatal injection. In July The judge set a new date of execution, the third Roberson.
During the interview with the AP, Roberson often did not treat eye contact and repeat words or phrases – behavior that experts say is related to autism.
“They thought (guilt) about how I was, you know. And I didn’t know that I was an autistic, you know, until you know a year and years,” Roberson said. Was not diagnosed with autism.
Roberson’s supporters and his legal team again hold rallies and ask for state and federal appellate courts and Texas Gregas Greg Abbott to suspend his execution. Its supporters are both liberals, ultra -conservative legislators, Texas GOP Megadonor and Conservative Activist Doug Deason, bestseller author John Grisham and Brian Wharton, a former police detective who helped bring the case against him.
“The whole world is watching. Texas, don’t kill this innocent man,” Wharton said on Saturday at Texas Capitol in Austria.
On Wednesday afternoon, a bilateral group of four lawmakers met with Roberson’s Polunsky division for an hour. Republican state spokesman Jeff Leach said he thought Roberson deserves a new trial.
“It will strengthen the system and save what I think is the innocent life of Robert Robertson,” Leach told Leach outside. “What a blessing was just spending an hour with him. I hope and begging the right thing to happen from now until next Thursday.”
The Attorney General and others claim that Nikki died of violence against children
The Office of Texas Prosecutor General Ken Paxton, as well as some medical experts and other NIKKI family members supported the girl due to violence against children and that Roberson had the story of her daughter.
“It has come a long time. Bowman refused to talk to AP.
The Abbott office did not immediately respond to email. Letters looking for a comment. Abbott has the power to give a one -time 30 -day repentance.
Roberson said he never hurt his daughter and tried to change his life and take care of Nikki as soon as he spent his time in prison for hacking and theft.
“I never pressed her and did not hit her,” Roberson said, adding that he had never disciplined his daughter, “because she was so small.”
The baby’s syndrome has been checked in recent years, as some lawyers and medical experts said the diagnosis had not been sent to prison incorrectly. Prosecutors and medical societies say it remains justified.
“It’s no longer a mystery of what happened to Nikki. It wasn’t a shaking. It was her chronic, serious health condition,” said Gretchen Sween, one of Roberson’s lawyers at Saturday’s rally. “The crime did not happen”.
However, September 26th. In Dallas Morning News, three pediatricians, including two with Yale Medicine School, said they had reviewed the case and “convinced that Nikki is a victim of violence against children.”
Roberson says he will optimistic to prove innocence
Roberson was arrested after taking Nikki to the hospital when she did not respond after a fall from their bed. He said he had never heard of shocked baby syndrome.
“It was bad enough to lose my little girl. And when they accused me, I couldn’t believe it,” Roberson said.
In a press release issued last year after Roberson’s death penalty was postponed last year, as well as in recent court applications, the Paxton Office emphasized that “it was not just a shocked baby case, but covered a child who was beaten and received a few shocks.” The Paxton Office said the jury “did not get Roberson’s” on “a shocked baby syndrome.”
However, Terre Compton, one of the jurors who convicted Roberson, told legislators last year that “everything we were given was all about shocked baby syndrome. That was why our decision was justified.”
Grisham, who writes a book about the case, said Roberson’s trial was “very unfair” because his autism contributed to people who thought he was guilty and his defense lawyers said it was a case of a shocked baby syndrome.
Roberson said it remains optimistic that one day would have the opportunity to prove his innocence with a new trial.
“I’m not afraid to die, but I’m not ready to die, you know. I would like to believe that God has more I have to do and do something, you know,” said Roberson.
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