USA - Texas. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a new trial to Cathy Lynn Henderson, 55, white

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a new trial to Cathy Lynn Henderson, 55, white. Henderson was convicted of killing Brandon Baugh while babysitting at the boy's home on Jan. 21, 1994. The state's highest criminal court deferred to opinion of the trial judge that scientific evidence that came to light after the trial. In an evidentiary hearing after the conviction, Dr. Roberto Bayardo said recent developments in the study of biomechanics suggested that the baby could have died from head injuries suffered in a accidental fall rather than from a deliberate blow. In 2007, Henderson was only two days away from her scheduled execution when the Court of Criminal Appeals granted her a reprieve and ordered the lower court to hear arguments in her appeal. Henderson, who is 1 of 10 women on death row in Texas, has always maintained the death was an accident. She said she panicked, packed Brandon's body in a wine cooler box and buried him in a shallow grave 60 miles away. Henderson then left Texas before being apprehended in Missouri under an assumed name.