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BPP Rejects Skinner Reprieve Request

By Steve Hall

Yesterday afternoon, the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a 60-day reprieve for Hank Skinner to allow time for DNA testing.  Thatnks to the Texas Tribune, you can read the Board's letter in Adobe .pdf format.Brandi Grissom posts, "Pardons Board Rejects Skinner Request," at the Texas Tribune.The seven-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles today unanimously rejected death-row inmate Hank Skinner's request for a reprieve from his execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday.And:With the board's decision today, Skinner's last hopes for testing on that evidence before he dies are Gov. Rick Perry and the U.S. Supreme Court. Skinner's attorneys have asked Perry to grant a one-time, 30-day reprieve to allow the testing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).