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Daily Dispatch 10/17/24: Texas Hours From Executing An Innocent Man, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas is now hours from executing a man who experts - and his own prosecutors - agree was convicted on junk science. The bipartisan Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has issued a subpoena for Roberson to testify before them at a date beyond his scheduled execution: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/17/texas-execution-robert-roberson-subpoena/ ...The state, for over a decade, has ignored a 2013 law that allows convictions based upon undermined science to be re-tried…
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