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.
via reason.com
They won’t even run the test. Why? Because they probably know what it’ll find.
There’s enough meat in this case to at least re-examine it. Yet again, we stand on the doorway of an innocent man being executed and instead of doing all we can to make sure that doesn’t happen, Texas is doing all it can to make sure it does.
Go read the story so you can be as outraged as I am right now.
This, my friends, is why I do not and cannot support capital punishment.