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Blog Coverage of the Skinner Stay

By Steve Hall

Retired Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin posts, "Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution of Henry Skinner," at Huffington Post.It is difficult to imagine what it must mean for someone scheduled for execution to believe that they are innocent and that they are going to die nonetheless. One half hour before Henry Skinner was to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his execution. I found myself sitting at the computer for hours waiting for a decision by the Court or the Governor. I cannot conceive what that same time period must have been like for Mr. Skinner.I have been advocating, as have many others, that DNA testing should be conducted in his case either to exonerate him or confirm his guilt. Inconceivably, the prosecution and the Texas courts have rejected his petitions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).