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Radley Balko on Willingham and Skinner

By Steve Hall

Balko posts, "Texas Officials Continue Coverup of One Possible Wrongful Execution; Fight To Proceed With Another," at his hit & run blog at Reason.com. The striking thing about both cases is that Texas government officials are staking out a position of ignorance. That is, they don't want to know if either man is innocent. That's not how they'd phrase it, of course. But in the Willingham case they're thwarting efforts merely to investigate the possibility that Wilingham might have been innocent. In the Skinner case they're fighting a DNA test?which Skinner's attorneys have offered to pay for themselves?that if prosecutors are correct would undeniably establish Skinner's guilt. But there's a chance it could implicate someone else, or complicate their case against Skinner...continue to full post

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