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Robert Roberson is an innocent father with Autism who has spent more than 20 years on death row in Texas for a crime that never occurred. He faced execution dates in 2024 and again in 2025, even though no court has yet reviewed the mountain of evidence proving that the tragic 2002 death of Roberson’s chronically ill toddler, Nikki, resulted from illness, medical error, and accident. Roberson is the first person in the United States to face execution for a conviction obtained using the now widely debunked “Shaken Baby Syndrome” (SBS) hypothesis.

Learn more about Robert Roberson.

Charles Don Flores has maintained his innocence for more than two decades of confinement on Texas’s death row. A Dallas County jury convicted and sentenced him to death in April 1999. Yet no physical evidence has ever linked him to the death of Betty Black, who was shot in her Farmers Branch home on January 29, 1998, during an attempted robbery perpetrated by two males.

One of those males, Richard Childs, a white man, was identified the day of the murder. Childs was the son of a local police officer and had a murky history with local undercover narcotics officers. He committed this crime while he was out on a low bond and had already failed to appear in court on a pending drug case. After Flores was convicted, Childs pled guilty to shooting Mrs. Black as part of a secretly negotiated plea bargain that resulted in a light sentence. His deal did not require him to testify against Flores. Childs was paroled in 2016 after serving less than half of his sentence.

Another concerning issue is the State’s use of “investigative hypnosis” to influence the memory of a witness. The Blacks’ next-door neighbor, Jill Bargainer, initially described seeing “two white males” with “long, dirty hair” who looked “similar.” She was unable to identify Flores in any of the photo lineups presented to her at the time of the crime—likely because he was not a white male with long hair, but a large Hispanic male with short, shaved hair.

After a suggestive hypnosis session conducted by the Farmers Branch Police Department, Mrs. Bargainer later said she was “more than 100% certain” she had seen Flores the morning of the crime. Her identification of him occurred 13 months after the crime, in the middle of Flores’s trial in the courtroom when he, the only Hispanic in the courtroom, was seated at the defense table. This so-called “identification,” made in the middle of trial, was the State’s only evidence placing Flores at the crime scene.

Sign the petition urging the authorities in Texas to grant Charles Flores a new trial. 

Andre Thomas resides at the Wayne Scott Unit, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s psychiatric facility, where the most mentally ill Texas prisoners are housed. Sentenced to death in 2005, he suffers from schizophrenia and permanently blinded himself by gouging out both of his eyes, on separate occasions. Over the course of his life, Thomas sought treatment for the symptoms of his severe mental illness, but no one responded to his increasingly desperate pleas for help.