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How far can we go in the name of "science"? <a href="https://innocenceproject.org/what-to-know-about-robert-roberson-on-texas-death-row-for-a-crime-that-never-occurred/">As Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old autistic American, faces execution in Texas on October 17</a>, this question takes on a particularly urgent resonance. </p>
How far can we go in the name of "science"? <a href="https://innocenceproject.org/what-to-know-about-robert-roberson-on-texas-death-row-for-a-crime-that-never-occurred/">As Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old autistic American, faces execution in Texas on October 17</a>, this question takes on a particularly urgent resonance.
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Roberson was sentenced to death in 2003 based on a <a href="/">medical theory that emerged in the United States in the 1970s and has since been widely disputed</a> (with <a href="https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/detaillist.aspx?View=%7BFAF6EDDB-5A68-4F8F-8A52-2C61F5BF9EA7%7D&FilterField1=Group&FilterValue1=SBS">over 30 exonerations in the U.S. to date</a>).
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Beyond showing why this archaic practice must be abolished, Roberson’s story is just one tragic example among many of lives destroyed in the name of misunderstood and indiscriminately applied science in courtrooms, as the <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf">U.S. National Academy of Sciences</a> already pointed out in 2009.</p>
Beyond showing why this archaic practice must be abolished, Roberson’s story is just one tragic example among many of lives destroyed in the name of misunderstood and indiscriminately applied science in courtrooms, as the <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf">U.S. National Academy of Sciences</a> already pointed out in 2009.
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Another case is that of <a href="https://innocenceproject.org/melissa-lucio-9-facts-innocent-woman-facing-execution/">Melissa Lucio</a>, sentenced to death in Texas in 2008 following the death of her 2-year-old daughter.
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Cyrille Rossant</td>
<td>Neuroscience researcher at University College London</td>
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Robert K Rothfeder, MD, JD</td>
<td>Emergency Medicine and attorney, Utah (USA)</td>
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Noémie Saïdi-Cotter</td>
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Barry Schifrin</td>
<td>Professor of obstetrics (United States)</td>
<td>Professor of obstetrics (USA)</td>
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