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Legislators Urge Reprieve

By Steve Hall

Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed shortly after 6:00 pm, tonight, in Huntsville.  Thanks to the Texas Tribune you can read the letters from Rep. Elliott Naishtat and Sen. Rodney Ellis.  Both are in Adobe .pdf format. Brandi Grissom posts, "Lawmakers Urge Perry to Grant Skinner Reprieve,"  at the Texas Tribune.State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, and state Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, wrote Gov. Rick Perry letters today urging him to grant a 30-day reprieve for death-row inmate Hank Skinner, who is scheduled for execution tomorrow. And: As the hours wind down to his execution, Skinner and his attorneys are awaiting decisions from Perry and from the U.S. Supreme Court. They've asked both to postpone the execution and order testing on the DNA...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).