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Watch Live: Robert Roberson testifies before Texas lawmakers after his execution was halted

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Robert Roberson , 57 , had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for the killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis .

Roberson was convicted of capital murder in his daughter's death from shaken baby syndrome, a condition once used as evidence of child abuse that experts now consider outdated and too vague to support a criminal charge.

He would be the first person in the U.S. put to death for a conviction linked to shaken child syndrome.

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