John Grisham Opposes Texas Execution

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John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’

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Robert Roberson , 57 , has been on Texas death row for more than 20 years for shaking to death his two-year-old daughter.

He would be the first person in the US executed on the basis of “shaken baby syndrome” a medical hypothesis from the 1970s that has been widely debunked as a form of junk science.

Grisham : “I just have a real anger at these cases. I can't let them go, I think about them all the time”.

Lead detective in the case who testified against Roberson now believes that the entire prosecution was based on a fallacy.

Shaken baby syndrome is a child abuse theory that emerged in the early 1970s .

It was hailed as an explanation for why some children presented with severe, and sometimes fatal, illness with signs of internal head trauma but little or no sign of external injury.

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