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Is Hank Skinner Innocent? Who Cares? Execution Today

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Texas is going to execute Hank Skinner today. Like any defendant condemmed to death, he's not a sympathetic fellow. He was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two sons on New Year's Eve. Of course because a jury said he did it, he did it. Any scientific evidence to the contrary is just a nuisance.But there is DNA that hasn't been tested.Hank Skinner wants it tested, and he's asking the U.S. Supreme Court and Governor Rick Perry to intervene. Skinner asked the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles, but they said "no."Skinner's defense lawyer spits in the wind: "I can't think of any good reason why you would refuse to do DNA testing in a case where there is other strong evidence pointing to innocence," Skinner's attorney Rob Owen told AFP...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).