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Dallas Morning News Editorial: Hold up Hank Skinner Execution for DNA Tests

By "Persian Cowboy"

Please call Gov Rick Perry at (512) 463-2000 and urge him to stop the execution of Hank Skinner on March 24, 2010 by granting a 30-day stay of execution so that DNA evidence can be tested. Call anytime day or night and leave message on voice mail.Dallas Morning News Editorial Board:The state's determination to execute Hank Skinner tomorrow should make even death-penalty supporters go pale.The Skinner caseThe crime: Twila Busby, 40, was beaten to death in 1993, and her grown sons Elwin Caler and Randy Busby were stabbed to death, in her Pampa home.Incrimination: Her boyfriend, Hank Skinner, 31, a petty criminal, had blood on his shirt the next morning and was charged with capital murder.Defense: His attorneys said he had consumed too much alcohol and drugs to do the killings, and they pointed to another possible suspect...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).