A Texas House committee voted Wednesday to subpoena the condemned man to testify at a hearing scheduled after he is expected to be put to death.

Texas is slated to put Robert Roberson III to death Thursday evening in what could be an unprecedented execution of a disabled man convicted of killing his daughter based on scrutinized science. Roberson,

The American Academy of Pediatrics embraces the diagnosis, but courts have thrown out some cases, calling it “junk science.”