Key points

Robert Roberson was scheduled for execution for killing his daughter.

Testimony included a warning about Roberson based on a psychopathy test score.

Journalistic criticism of Roberson's psychopathy assessment process fails to prove any error.

If error was involved in Roberson's assessment, a mental health professional should make this determination.

Robert L. Roberson III was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 16. He won a stay, but the case isn't over. He was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. The prosecution said he’d shaken her so aggressively that she died from injuries sustained. The story he gave at the hospital was that she’d fallen from her bed. Hospital personnel determined that Nikki’s injuries were inconsistent with Roberso

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