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More on the Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

David Protess, Director of the acclaimed Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University in Chicago, was interviewed recently by the Houston Independent Media Center, broadcast on KPFT-FM.  It's online at, "Hank Skinner: Another Question of Innocence on Texas Death Row."  Rachel Clarke conducted the interview.Hank Skinner has been on death row for the last 15 years after being convicted of killing his life partner and her two adult disabled children. As the execution date quickly approaches, a number of questions still remain. Questions that could be easily cleared up with DNA testing that the state so far has refused to grant. Dr. Protess, a professor at Northwest University, shares more about the doubts and unanswered questions that linger and makes a direct plea to Governor Perry to save Skinner's life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).