The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.”

The state’s highest criminal appeals court has vacated the conviction of a Dallas County man accused of injuring a child, arguing scientific

However, late Thursday, the state’s highest court blocked the killing of Roberson - an autistic father at the center of a controversial “shaken baby syndrome” case. Three of the court’s judges said the case brought up a significant question on the separation of powers on which there is no clear precedent.

A Texas appeals court has reversed a judge’s order to delay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a man who would become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a d

Robert Roberson to be executed today, despite critics' doubts over the potentially flawed 'shaken baby syndrome' diagnosis.

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 syndrome is facing a lethal injection

Robert Roberson was sentenced to death based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis. His case went to the Supreme Court.