Calls have grown to stop Roberson's execution due to questions about the evidence of his daughter suffering shaken baby syndrome, a brain injury caused by shaking or violent impact.
Roberson's supporters say doctors misdiagnosed Curtis's injuries as being related to shaken baby syndrome and that new evidence shows the girl died not from abuse but from complications related to severe pneumonia.
Gretchen Sween, one of Roberson's lawyers, urged the governor to grant the reprieve so we can continue to pursue Mr Roberson's innocence claim. We pray that Governor Abbott does everything in his power to prevent the tragic, irreversible mistake of executing an innocent man, Sween said.
If the execution proceeds, he will be the first person in the United States to face capital punishment for a murder conviction linked to the controversial shaken baby syndrome diagnosis.
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