How a Podcast Could Spare the Life of a Convicted Death Row Inmate

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The state of Texas is set to execute 58-year-old Robert Roberson next week, but his attorneys have filed a last minute request for a new trial based on a recent Dateline podcast. Roberson would be the first person to ever be put to death for shaken baby syndrome, following the 2002 death of his 2 year old daughter Nikki. The science he was convicted on is no longer regarded and is considered “junk science.” That information alone brought lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to intervene last year, to stay his execution, but that stay is up and Roberson time is up. Now, baby Nikki’s maternal grandfather is speaking up, telling a story, if true, of egregious conduct by the judge in this case from the hospital where Nikki died, all the way to the courtroom he presided over in Roberson’s trial.

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0:14.0	until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
0:20.9	America, y'all better work the hell up.
0:22.9	Bad things happens to good people in small towns.
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1:17.4	Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa once promised to break both of Bobby Kennedy's arms.
1:22.4	Bobby, JFK's Attorney General, wanted to take down the mob, starting with Hoffa.
1:26.6	Like, no one gives a shit about Bobby, right? So this is Bobby trying to get the world to care
1:31.5	about him, which I think explains all this passion and anger going into this, even though it's all
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