This Should Shake You to Your Core

“In the early morning of Jan. 31, 2002, Robert Roberson entered an East Texas emergency room. His two-year-old daughter, Nikki, was in his arms. She was limp and non-responsive. Her lips were blue. The hospital staff put Nikki on life support and tried to resuscitate her. And they called the police on Roberson. They thought they had a case of shaken baby syndrome on their hands. But testifying Wednesday to the Texas legislative Committee on Jurisprudence, Dr. Roland Auer, a Canadian neurosurgeon who has testified in similar cases, said Nikki was not the victim of abuse. ‘Nikki died of consequences of pneumonia— cardiac arrest — and she was basically brain-dead in a living body.'” Shaken baby syndrome is one of the most controversial diagnoses in medicine. So far, that’s not stopping Texas from moving forward with the execution of the accused. Texas is about to execute a man for a crime that never happened, medical experts say.