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Routier still waiting on DNA testing

Tim SampsonThe Daily Times Published June 24, 2009Convicted child killer Darlie Lynn Routier sits on death row waiting for a new round of court-ordered DNA testing a year after the highest criminal appeals court in the state ordered that evidence be re-examined.Her attorney says the results could substantiate Routier?s claims that an unidentified intruder murdered her two sons.Arrested for killing her sons in their family home in Dallas in 1996, Routier was tried, convicted and sentence to death in Kerrville. More than a decade later, Routier, 38, continues to advocate her innocence from death row.In June 2008, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously that Routier was entitled to re-testing of several pieces of forensic evidence, using more advanced methods not available during the trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).