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

The Texas Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence voted at the end of its hearing Wednesday to subpoena Robert Roberson to ...

Advocates of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson are pleading for the state to halt its plans to execute him Thursday for ...

A study published last year in Forensic Science International found that a significant number of patients were misdiagnosed with abusive head trauma, citing other conditions that can cause ...

In 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the name of shaken baby syndrome to the more broadly defined "abusive head trauma" to include injuries caused by mechanisms other than shaking ...

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

Robert Roberson was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in a case that relied on a disputed diagnosis of shaken ...

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 ...

ICON Cope founder Dr Suzanne Smith, said: “Abusive head trauma can occur in any setting when a parent or carer is overwhelmed by persistent crying." "The additional pressures from the rising ...

Doctors told detectives that the child had “abusive head trauma” and other injuries. Boggess is the fiance of the boy’s mother. He’s in jail without bond. To report a correction or typo ...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken ...