HUFFINGTON POST: A man condemned for the New Year’s Eve slayings of his girlfriend and her two sons will get new DNA testing after the Texas attorney general’s office on Friday withdrew its objections.
Hank Skinner was sentenced to death and once came within an hour of execution for the 1993 slayings of Twila Busby and her two grown sons in Pampa, in the Texas Panhandle. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted its last stay of execution Nov. 7.
Prosecutors had consistently dismissed Skinner’s request for DNA testing as a ploy to delay his execution. They reversed course Friday in a one-paragraph advisory filed with the Court of Criminal Appeals… (more)
EDITOR: Only in Texas could there have been any question that Skinner should be given a DNA test.
