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Hank Skinner and Post-Conviction DNA Testing

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom writes, "Case Open," the first of two articles looking at the case of Hank Skinner.  Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the article: Twila Busby was Hank Skinner?s soul mate. ?We just fell together. We just clicked, man,? he says. The two were hardly apart after they met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. They would kiss in public and cuddled up on the couch to watch thrillers. They were ?sick in love,? Skinner says through a telephone receiver behind a Plexiglas window on Texas? death row unit in Livingston.A jury found that Skinner was so sick in love that, in a jealous rage, he strangled Busby, bashed in her head and face with an axe handle and then stabbed to death her two mentally disabled adult sons on New Years Eve 1993...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).