Robert Roberson, diagnosed with autism after his conviction, faces execution on Oct. 17 due to misjudgments about his demeanor during his daughter’s medical crisis.
Robert Roberson, diagnosed with autism after his conviction, faces execution on Oct. 17 due to misjudgments about his demeanor during his daughter’s medical crisis.
There’s quite a bit more than “misjudgments about demeanor” here.
Loki_of_Asgaard on
I will never understand how a country so obsessed with the idea of freedom hands their government permission to kill them. Skipping the ethics and cost arguments, setting up a system where the government can choose to kill you for whatever reasons that it decides seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do. What idiot is willing to give up the basic protection of “the government is not allowed to kill you” just so they can do it to people they don’t like?
Before anyone says “only certain crimes” you forgot the part where the government is the one that decides which crimes are on the list. Just because it’s murder today doesn’t mean they won’t add something new in tomorrow. They are already trying to expand the list and I wouldn’t be shocked if abortions is up next.
CommunicationTime265 on
Can anyone tell me what actually happened in the first place? I can’t find it in the article. Did he bring the baby to the hospital dead or not breathing? What caused them to just use shaken baby syndrome as an excuse and send this guy off to death row?
Downtown-Oil-7784 on
Damn, this is brutal
Melodic-Bench720 on
Stop eating whatever BS “activists” shove down your throat. There is a substantial amount of evidence pointing to this dude abusing his own daughter to death. It was absolutely not just a “misjudgedement of demeanor”
Room480 on
My view is that if there is a chance the person didn’t actually commit the crime than their execution should be immediately halted. Cause you don’t want to risk executing an innocent person
hookums on
Last month in one of the threads about Marcellus Williams, someone was talking about how the Innocence Project is losing their shine, defending any dirtbag with enough money behind them. I didn’t agree then but I’m starting to see it now.
People defending Roberson keep saying shaken baby syndrome has been discredited, but it really hasn’t. There are several cases where SBS has erroneously been diagnosed postmortem and led to a wrongful conviction, but in those cases there were no apparent injuries (outside of brain hemorrhage) or histories of abuse. SBS is only “junk science” when it’s used to convict with no other evidence of abuse or assault.
Roberson has a history of domestic abuse. His child had external and internal injuries consistent with SBS. His autism isn’t what got him convicted, it was his history of violence, witness accounts, and the extent of the baby’s injuries.
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Pretty much the worst case scenario for the double empathy problem.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-7546/266633/20230511074912410_Complete%20Appendix%20w%20Cover.pdf#page=7
There’s quite a bit more than “misjudgments about demeanor” here.
I will never understand how a country so obsessed with the idea of freedom hands their government permission to kill them. Skipping the ethics and cost arguments, setting up a system where the government can choose to kill you for whatever reasons that it decides seems like an incredibly stupid thing to do. What idiot is willing to give up the basic protection of “the government is not allowed to kill you” just so they can do it to people they don’t like?
Before anyone says “only certain crimes” you forgot the part where the government is the one that decides which crimes are on the list. Just because it’s murder today doesn’t mean they won’t add something new in tomorrow. They are already trying to expand the list and I wouldn’t be shocked if abortions is up next.
Can anyone tell me what actually happened in the first place? I can’t find it in the article. Did he bring the baby to the hospital dead or not breathing? What caused them to just use shaken baby syndrome as an excuse and send this guy off to death row?
Damn, this is brutal
Stop eating whatever BS “activists” shove down your throat. There is a substantial amount of evidence pointing to this dude abusing his own daughter to death. It was absolutely not just a “misjudgedement of demeanor”
My view is that if there is a chance the person didn’t actually commit the crime than their execution should be immediately halted. Cause you don’t want to risk executing an innocent person
Last month in one of the threads about Marcellus Williams, someone was talking about how the Innocence Project is losing their shine, defending any dirtbag with enough money behind them. I didn’t agree then but I’m starting to see it now.
People defending Roberson keep saying shaken baby syndrome has been discredited, but it really hasn’t. There are several cases where SBS has erroneously been diagnosed postmortem and led to a wrongful conviction, but in those cases there were no apparent injuries (outside of brain hemorrhage) or histories of abuse. SBS is only “junk science” when it’s used to convict with no other evidence of abuse or assault.
Roberson has a history of domestic abuse. His child had external and internal injuries consistent with SBS. His autism isn’t what got him convicted, it was his history of violence, witness accounts, and the extent of the baby’s injuries.