Dave Lindorff: "Testing Phobia: Texas Set to Execute Another Possibly Innocent Man Today" - This Can't Be Happening!

The bloody-minded, death-obsessed state of Texas, which has already demonstrably executed at least one innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham (who was falsely accused and ultimately killed by the state for the alleged arson “murder” of his two little children when in fact they’d died because of a fire caused by an electrical fault), is about to execute yet another probably innocent man today.

This time it’s Hank Skinner, 47, who has spent 16 years on the state’s bustling death row protesting his innocence in the 1993 New Year’s Eve murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, aged 20 and 22. The Supreme Court just rejected his last-minute appeal for a stay of execution.

The thing about Skinner’s case is it would be relatively easy to prove whether or not he was really the killer of the three. There are two bloody knives that have never been tested for Skinner’s DNA--or for the DNA of Twila’s uncle, the man who had reportedly made several unwanted sexual advances at her earlier that evening, leading her to leave a party early, and who Skinner claims is the real killer. Nor was semen that was found on Twila Busby, who was raped, or skin found under her fingernails, ever DNA tested to see who they belonged to...

For the rest of this story, and a link for writing to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, please go to:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

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Dave