Robert Roberson , the Texas man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter but whose conviction had been called into question by many, was granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Roberson has been on death row for more than 20 years after he was convicted of murder in 2003. Prosecutors have claimed his daughter, Nikki Curtis, had died of shaken baby syndrome and that Roberson had killed her, the Associated Press previously reported.

The court ruled Thursday, Oct. 9 that Roberson had satisfied his relief claim after his attorneys cited a previous Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that granted another man, Andrew Roark, a new trial after he was convicted of injury to a child, having been accused of shaken baby syndrome.

Roberson's attorneys have claimed t

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