A spokesperson for the Death Penalty Abolition Movement has informed this Blog that contrary to its previous understanding, the Supreme Court will not release its decision until Monday April 26, 2010. "The case is scheduled for a (Supreme Court) conference on Friday April 23, 2010."
See post from earlier today:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2010/04/hank-skinner-case-supreme-court.html
BACKGROUND: The editor of the Texas Tribune says in a note that "Hank Skinner is set to be executed for a 1993 murder he's always maintained he didn't commit. He wants the state to test whether his DNA matches evidence found at the crime scene, but prosecutors say the time to contest his conviction has come and gone......We told the story of the murders and his conviction and sentencing in the first part of this story." Reporter Brandi Grissom, author of the Tribune series on Hank Skinner, writes: "I interviewed Henry "Hank" Watkins Skinner, 47, at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — death row — on January 20, 2010. Skinner was convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriends and her two sons; the state has scheduled his execution for February 24. Skinner has always maintained that he's innocent and for 15 years has asked the state to release DNA evidence that he says will prove he was not the killer."
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