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Casting light on Texas clemency decisions

I've not followed the Hank Skinner case on Grits; the blow-by-blow has been covered well elsewhere and I've had nothing in particular to add to the conversation. (Sam Millsap's recent column in the Houston Chronicle largely reflects my views.) Certainly I think any potentially exonerating forensic tests should be performed before his execution date, currently scheduled for March 24; you don't want such inconvenient truths coming out after the fact.But as the clock ticks and the lawyers wait on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether DNA evidence must be tested, Skinner's case is casting light on some particularly dark corners of the justice system, most recently the clemency process, which has essentially withered and atrophied from disuse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).