NBC News’ Lester Holt is dropping a new Dateline podcast on Monday, taking a look at the high-profile death row case of Robert Roberson .

Roberson, 58, whose execution was delayed last year, has been given a new death date for later this month. He's now scheduled to be executed on Oct. 16 and would be the first individual put to death in the United States in a case related to shaken baby syndrome.

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In 2003, Roberson was convicted of the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki. Roberson has maintained his innocence and said his daughter died of pneumonia and not from shaken baby syndrome, as prosecutors claimed.

In 2024, Roberson applied for clemency, but that was denied. The Texas Supreme Court delayed his e

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