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An Update on the Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

Sunday's Amarillo Globe-News ran the article, "Henry Skinner's last chance: Steady in his convictions."  It's written by Janelle Stecklein. Henry Watkins Skinner has been on death row since 1995, when a jury found him guilty of the Dec. 31, 1993, murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, 40, and her two disabled sons, Elwin "Scooter" Caler, 22, and Melvin "Randy" Busby Jr., 20, in Pampa. Minutes before Skinner's March 24 execution, the Supreme Court halted it to decide whether he can sue 31st and 223rd District Attorney Lynn Switzer for access to evidence previously untested for DNA. Skinner long has contended that he would be exonerated if additional evidence found at the murder scene were tested...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).