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More Editorials Call for DNA Testing in Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

Today's Austin American-Statesman carries the editorial, "Death row inmate entitled to delay for DNA tests."If all goes as planned by the state of Texas, tomorrow will be the final sunrise Henry W. Skinner ever sees. Skinner, 47, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Wednesday for a brutal triple-murder committed in Pampa on New Year's Eve 1993.We believe that even the most ardent supporters of capital punishment, confronted with the facts below, will join Skinner in asking Gov. Rick Perry for a 30-day reprieve.In fact, the most ardent supporters of capital punishment ? those most invested in making sure Texas does not execute an innocent person ? are the ones who should be leading the call for the delay.There are seven untested items that contain DNA that could be dispositive of Skinner's claim that he was falsely convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).