Scam Science and the Death Penalty: The Case of Robert Roberson

In 2002, Robert Roberson raced his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, to a hospital emergency room in the east Texas town of Palestine.  Nikki was limp, her skin blue.  Roberson told the emergency room doctors and nurses that the two had been sleeping when he awoke and found Nikki on the floor, having fallen off the bed. The child [...]