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Is the Death Penalty on Death Row?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a BBC News report posted today by Paul Adams.  It focuses on the Hank Skinner case, but examines current trends in Texas..  LINK The scene outside the Huntsville unit of the Texas state penitentiary last Wednesday evening was a familiar one. Police officers stood casually outside the imposing red-brick walls as a small group of passionate opponents of the death penalty railed against a punishment they say has no place in modern America. Inside, a death row inmate, Hank Skinner, was due to be executed by lethal injection. But with half an hour to go, word emerged that the Supreme Court in Washington had issued a last-minute stay of execution. Skinner, convicted of the 1993 killing of his girlfriend and her two adult sons in Pampa, has always protested his innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).