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Skinner Execution Stayed - Reset for March 24

By Steve Hall

The state district court with authority over the Hank Skinner case has withdrawn the February 24th execution date.  The court reset the execution date for March 24th. Skinner's attorneys issued the following statement: We are dismayed that the court chose, in the same order, to re-schedule Mr. Skinner's execution for March 24. This unseemly haste to execute Mr. Skinnerignores the growing public concern and outcry over the unanswered questions about Mr. Skinner's guilt. Now, more than ever, DNA testing is necessary to resolve those doubts. Setting a March 24 execution date also means that Mr. Skinner's pending lawsuit against the Gray County District Attorney in the United States Supreme Court, seeking the much-needed DNA testing, must now be resolved under needless and entirely artificial time pressures...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).