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The Latest in the Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

"The Secret Pardon," is the title of Brandi Grissom's latest Texas Tribune post on the Hank Skinner case. It's another must-read from this Trib reporter.Every couple of minutes, attorney Rob Owen glances nervously at the calendar in his office. Barring the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court, a reprieve from the secretive Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is the last hope for his client, Hank Skinner, to avoid the poison-filled syringe that awaits him on Wednesday.The seven-member board makes life-or-death decisions, recommending to the governor whether an execution should be delayed, called off or carried out. Yet it?s one of the least transparent agencies in state government, making it all but impossible for Owen, or any other member of the public, to decipher how or why it makes decisions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).