Robert Roberson: Parents’ rights advocates call for granting new trial

The Brief

  • Robert Roberson, a man convicted ot killing his two-year-old daughter in 2002, could be executed Oct. 16
  • Advocates of his are pushing for a new trial. They are arguing his conviction was based on “junk science.”
  • The State maintains Roberson’s conviction still stands

AUSTIN, Texas Robert Roberson could be executed this month. He was convicted more than two decades ago for the death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, in 2002.

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People on both sides of the aisle have been pushing for a new trial, arguing his conviction was based on “junk science.”

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