Stay of Execution With Just Days to Spare!
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In a rare move, the Texas Court of Appeals has just halted the execution of 58-year-old Robert Roberson. Roberson was set to die by lethal injection October 16th and become the first person in this country executed for a shaken baby syndrome conviction after the death of his 2 year old daughter. He will now have another day in court to present new evidence, his lawyers saying they hope he will finally be exonerated after spending the last 22 years behind bars, an innocent man.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 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. |
| 0:32.5 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
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| 0:47.9 | Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October 9th, and he was one week away from his execution date when a Texas inmate heard the |
| 0:59.6 | words, I guess every death row inmate wants to hear. They have stayed your execution. And with that, |
| 1:07.2 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robert Robertson, Roves, we've been following this case for quite a while. |
| 1:14.1 | Cannot believe. Here we are. He's supposed to be executed a week from today. He got news. That's not going forward. |
| 1:19.5 | Yes. October has been a scary, but a good month for Robert Robertson, because this is the second time in one year in a period of 12 months |
| 1:29.0 | where there have been interventions to stop an imminent execution. He would have been, |
| 1:34.4 | and if this is eventually to go through, he would be the first person ever executed after |
| 1:40.6 | being convicted of shaken baby syndrome. That's how flimsy and now really they say |
| 1:45.8 | unwarranted and baseless that science is that was used to convict him all those years ago. |
| 1:52.0 | If you've been following this case, we certainly have. You've been keeping up with us on our morning run, |
| 1:55.7 | but Robert Robertson, I was 58 years old. He was convicted of killing his own daughter, a two-year-old, Nikki, a story |
| 2:03.1 | in the circumstances we'll get into, but he was convicted based on shaken baby syndrome. |
| 2:08.3 | Well, a lot of that science has changed, and if he were to go to trial today, they wouldn't |
| 2:14.8 | be allowed to even use the same science that they used all those years |
| 2:18.5 | ago to convict him. So he went before a court of appeals and that court of appeals has today |
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