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Arizona Lab Offers Pro Bono DNA Testing in Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom posts, "AZ Lab Offers Free Testing for Skinner," at the Texas Tribune today. Chromosal Laboratories, a DNA testing lab in Phoenix, Ariz., has told Gov. Rick Perry that it will test evidence in the Hank Skinner case for free and within 30 days if he grants a reprieve of the convicted murderer's March 24 execution date.Skinner was convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriend and her two sons in the small West Texas town of Pampa. He has professed his innocence, though, and Skinner argues that DNA testing on a rape kit, knives, a man's windbreaker and other materials from the crime scene could prove someone else was the killer. For a decade, Texas courts have denied Skinner's pleadings for the tests, arguing that should have been done at the original trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).