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Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Radley Balko's latest post at Reason.com.  It's subtitled, "State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test."  It's a must-read: Henry Watkins ?Hank? Skinner was supposed to be executed tomorrow, but last Tuesday a Gray County, Texas, District Court judge pushed the date back one month, to March 24. Skinner has been on Death Row in Texas since 1993, awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend and her two sons. He has maintained his innocence since his arrest, and investigators from the Northwestern University Journalism School?s Medill Innocence Project have shot numerous holes in the prosecution?s case. But Texas officials refuse to conduct a simple DNA test that could point to the condemned man?s innocence or cement his guilt...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).