A piece in yesterday’s Times (£). An American woman, Suzanne Johnson, spent more than two decades in prison for the death of a child by “shaken baby syndrome” before scientific advances disproved the diagnosis. Four years later, her conviction was overturned.

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to be the first person in the United States to be executed for SBS after the death of his chronically ill two-year-old daughter Nikki in 2002. He was two hours away from receiving a lethal injection last Thursday when a judge called off preparations. An interesting piece on Roberson’s case published in August by the Innocence Project is here.

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