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Getting Facts Straight in Texas Murder Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram concerning the case of Hank Skinner.  LINKTexas Death Row inmate Henry W. "Hank" Skinner, convicted in 1995 of a gruesome triple murder in Gray County, has spent years trying to get DNA tests on evidence collected after the 1993 killings.Skinner insists that he didn't kill his girlfriend or her two adult sons at the home they shared and that the testing would prove it.But the Gray County district attorney's office has maintained that Skinner could have had the testing before his trial and used the evidence then, and because he didn't it's too late. Texas and federal courts have ruled in the DA's favor.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended against clemency for Skinner, and Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).