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Texas Wants to Execute a Man Without Examining All the Evidence

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Washington Post, following up on the Supreme Court oral arguments in Hank Skinner's case.  LINK Mr. Skinner, who has consistently maintained his innocence, twice has failed to persuade Texas judges to allow tests of this long-ignored evidence. The U.S. appeals court with jurisdiction over Texas affirmed the state court decisions. The case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard arguments on Wednesday. In 2009, a 5-4 majority of the justices turned down a similar request by an Alaska death-row inmate. But in that case the justices noted that Alaska did not have a law that allowed inmates to press for post-conviction DNA tests. They also said that the Alaska inmate should have brought his case to state court first, rather than going directly to the federal courts...continue to full post

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