Climate warming affects all of us, including those on death row.
Do you know that the small windows on Texas death row do not open?
The Houston Chronicle recently reported on the sweltering prisons in Texas:
State prison officials are in emergency-response mode this week as … Continue Reading ››
It seems that time has flown by while Hank’s appeal on the interpretation of the results of the DNA tests is still pending. It was filed in November 2014, almost three years ago. This was not due to the legal process itself but rather to an important recommendation of the FBI to … Continue Reading ››
The hearing initially scheduled for November 8th & 9th, 2017 in Pampa, Texas has been postponed for technical reasons until January 8th & 9th, 2018.
This delay obviously lengthens Hank’s wait on death row, but it will also allow us to mobilize more people to raise the funds necessary to … Continue Reading ››
“There is simply no justifiable reason why Texas continues to waste taxpayer dollars in its decade-long fight to prevent scientific testing in Mr. Skinner’s case.”
On October 27, 2011, more than a dozen current and former lawmakers, prosecutors, judges, police officers and even a former Texas governor sent a letter today calling … Continue Reading ››
If you believe the justice system weighs both inculpatory and exculpatory evidence before sending a person to death row, think again!
Accused of a triple homicide that occurred in the home he shared with his girlfriend on New Year’s Eve 1993 in Texas, Hank Skinner was sentenced to death in March 1995 … Continue Reading ››
There was a massive amount of evidence available in the form of potential murder weapons, blood spatter evidence and hand and fingerprints. Careful testing of this evidence could have eliminated Hank Skinner from the murder enquiries and perhaps even provided an indication as to who the attacker actually was. Yet the state experts … Continue Reading ››
On October 27, 2011, State elected officials sent an open letter to Governor Rick Perry asking him to lift the execution warrant so that DNA tests could be performed.
On November 10, 2007, Al Jazeera International aired a two-part program entitled "American Justice - Fatal Flaws", part 2 deals with wrongful convictions through Hank's case & Curtis McCarty's who was exonerated from Oklahoma death row after 22 years.
