The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.” ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was ...

Robert Roberson had been set to die Thursday for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. Among those who believe he is innocent is the former lead detective on the case.

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby ...

The inmate would be the first person in the US executed on a shaken baby syndrome-based conviction, his lawyers say, as the ...

A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of ...

The Texas parole board denied clemency Wednesday for Robert Roberson, who was convicted in his daughter's 2002 death.

Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection for his daughter's 2002 death — a conviction based on a syndrome ...

A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to ...

Robert Roberson has been sentenced for death for a crime that, according to activists and experts, never happened.

The Texas Supreme Court halted the execution of Robert Roberson in an 11th-hour decision Thursday night, after a flurry of ...

The term was changed in 2009 to abusive head trauma, a more inclusive diagnosis, Haney said. There are about 1,300 reported cases of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma in the U.S. each year ...