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Singapore has executed nine people so far this year and dozens more are on death row for drug trafficking offences.
If Robert Roberson’s execution eventually goes ahead, it will be the first for shaken baby syndrome.
Robert Roberson was scheduled to die in a US case where experts cast doubt on the evidence used in his conviction.
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Robert Roberson was convicted of killing daughter and is now set to be first execution in a shaken baby syndrome case.
US execution comes days after that of Marcellus Williams in Missouri, where victim’s family also asked for clemency.
Judge acknowledges Iwao Hakamada was wrongfully convicted for murders at miso factory in 1966.
Marcellus Williams has been executed in Missouri, despite objections from prosecutors.
The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 over the killing of Lisha Gayle in what appeared to be a burglary gone wrong.
A married couple reportedly executed on Monday with five more people facing the death penalty on Tuesday.
Women aged 23 and 24 sentenced to death while a minor is jailed for life for the 2022 killing of a young teacher.
