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    Entire forests have been clear cut on his appeals.

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    Hank Skinner died of natural causes this morning, per journalist Keri Blakinger.

    https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1...jOj4Iwwn6Baluw

    According to TDCJ, he was at the prison hospital in Galveston.

    https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/Inmate.../search.action
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    His execution was scheduled back in October 2022. If Tarrant County would have asked for a date three months later from when they motioned to have him executed, he would have already been gone by now; instead, they gave him almost an entire year to wait, allowing him to run out the clock. Just saying.

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    Texas death row inmate dies after December surgery for tumor

    By The Associated Press

    HOUSTON (AP) — A man who had been on Texas’ death row for nearly 30 years after being convicted in the killings of his girlfriend and her two sons has died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the state prison system said Thursday.

    Henry “Hank” Skinner, 60, died Thursday afternoon at a hospital in Galveston, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Robert Hurst.

    In a statement, Skinner’s attorneys said he died from complications following surgery in December to remove a brain tumor.

    Skinner had been scheduled to be executed Sept. 13.

    Skinner was convicted of capital murder for the New Year’s Eve 1993 deaths of 40-year-old Twila Jean Busby and her sons — 22-year-old Elwin Caler and 20-year-old Randy Busby. They were found dead in their home in Pampa, located northeast of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.

    Prosecutors said Skinner used an ax handle to kill Twila Busby and then fatally stabbed her sons, who were both mentally impaired.

    Skinner had long maintained his innocence. He had said he was passed out on a couch from a mix of vodka and codeine at the time of their deaths. Skinner and his attorneys had pointed to Twila Busby’s now-deceased uncle, Robert Donnell, as the possible killer.

    “Mr. Skinner was still challenging his conviction at the time of his death, and we are deeply sorry that he passed away before those proceedings were complete,” his attorneys said in a statement.

    Prosecutors had said traces of Skinner’s DNA were in blood in the bedroom where Randy Busby was found stabbed to death and that his DNA also matched blood stains throughout the house where the murders took place.

    Skinner once came within an hour of execution in March 2010 before the U.S. Supreme Court granted him a stay so he could pursue DNA testing of items from the crime scene that hadn’t been tested.

    This evidence was not tested at the time of Skinner’s trial as his lawyer had feared the test results would be more damaging to his case.

    “I’ve been framed ever since,” Skinner told The Associated Press in 2010. “They’re fixing to kill me for something I didn’t do.”

    Testing was done on the additional evidence. His attorneys had argued the results of the testing showed it was “reasonably probable” he would have been acquitted for the slayings if the jury had heard testimony about this additional evidence. Prosecutors had argued most of the DNA evidence implicated Skinner.

    In 2014, a judge ruled Skinner probably would have been convicted even if the additional DNA evidence had been introduced at his trial.

    In October, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the judge’s ruling.

    https://www.wafb.com/2023/02/17/texa...outputType=amp
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    Life-saving surgical procedures being performed on Death Row inmates. Gotta love that.

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    Yep. Healthcare on the taxpayer's dime for criminals but nothing but a Sophie's choice of debt and death for the law-abiding losers who did everything right in this putrescent carcass of a country.
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    Other than this, I would like to stress how damaging Sharen Wilson's retirement syndrome has been. She knew that Skinner was terminally ill, and she deliberately chose a date almost one year far away in the future, allowing him to run out the clock. This was deliberate.

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    Well look on the bright side, it saves a dose of pento for someone less moribund and allows us to sidestep another "innocence" controversy.
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    The last image of Skinner before he died.

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