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    I saw a newspaper response saying Skinner was found hiding from the cops covered in blood so his guilt is not in doubt. Even if you have a little bit of others DNA on you it doesn't exonerate you.

    You could just be a messy killer.

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    Lawyers urge court to stay Texas inmate's execution

    WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a Texas death row inmate urged an appeals court Friday to stay his execution, just days before he is due to be put to death, to allow for DNA testing that could prove his innocence.

    Hank Skinner, who has been on death row for 16 years, is set to be executed on Wednesday for bludgeoning his girlfriend to death and fatally stabbing two of her children.

    The criminal appeals court "should stop the rush to execution so that it can give Mr Skinner's appeal the close attention it deserves," attorney Robert Owen said in a statement, pointing to "powerful and unanswered" questions over whether his client actually committed the crime.

    Skinner, who is married to French death penalty activist Sandrine Ageorges, got help from across the Atlantic on Friday when France expressed "concern" and called on Texas to put off the execution.

    "As judicial appeals in the state of Texas and at the federal level have not been exhausted, France considers it essential that the November 9 execution date be lifted," the French foreign ministry said.

    The latest appeal came after a US District Court judge denied Skinner's third request for DNA testing on Thursday.

    Skinner, 49, has not denied being present in the home at the time of the killings but he has insisted that DNA collected at the site could clear him as a suspect in the 1993 crimes.

    The state has long refused, citing a restrictive state DNA testing law. But lawmakers made changes to the law this year that lifted many of the restrictions.

    Skinner's appeal also garnered further support after over 120,000 people signed an online petition urging Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, to halt his execution.

    Most of the signatures on the Change.org petition were added after Thursday's ruling.

    "We urge you to uphold the very standards you are promoting as part of a very much needed criminal justice reform and we ask you to demand the withdrawal of the execution warrant and that DNA testing be granted to Mr Skinner in the best possible time," the petition read.

    "We trust you to do the right thing for justice and for the truth in Texas, before it is too late."

    The US Supreme Court granted a stay of Skinner's execution less than an hour before he was due to be put to death last year. The high court sent the case back to a lower court to rule on Skinner's DNA testing request.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...8410b26047.f51

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    ::SIGH:: it is not my nature to copy and paste such posts...BUT Ageorges has spoken and her statements were put in print by a Turkish news source.

    Texas man on death row has 'no illusions': wife

    Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner, set to be executed Wednesday, has "no illusions" about his fate despite pending appeals, his French wife said Saturday.

    Anti-death penalty activist Sandrine Ageorges, who met and married Skinner while he was on death row in the 1990s, said her husband is "handling the situation quite well despite everything."

    "He has no illusions about an overly politicized system to expect that the truth will carry the day," she told AFP in an email.

    Ageorges said she is "realistic, and thus worried," adding that "the political dimension is taking over and that does not reassure me at all."

    Skinner's fate depends in part on Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is running for president while boasting of his support for capital punishment.

    Texas courts have denied requests by Skinner's lawyers for DNA tests he claims would exonerate him.

    Skinner was convicted of bludgeoning his girlfriend to death and fatally stabbing two of her children.

    Barring a reprieve, his execution has been set for November 9.

    Skinner has not denied being present in the home at the time of the killings but he has insisted that DNA collected at the site could clear him as a suspect in the 1993 crimes.

    Texas has refused to carry out the tests on evidence found at the home ever since a jury convicted him in 1995. Skinner's attorneys are asking an appeals court to reconsider the request.

    Skinner has maintained his innocence since the beginning. He has also enjoyed the support for 10 years of Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess, who has rerun the investigation with his students as part of the school's "innocence project."

    http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=371142

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Skinner has maintained his innocence since the beginning. He has also enjoyed the support for 10 years of Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess, who has rerun the investigation with his students as part of the school's "innocence project."

    http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=371142
    Of course he has maintained his innocence. That's the mark of a savvy career criminal. NEVER admit anything and never confess. Skinner knows the system all too well and plays it at every turn. His consistency and continued denials only prove that he is a true sociopath.

    I'm sure that Gov. Perry will stick to his guns, in light of his presidential hopes. I just hope the courts won't intervene, again.

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    Texas Death Row Inmate Henry "Hank" Skinner Confessed!

    Will Additional DNA Testing Be Conducted Before Nov 9th for a Condemned Hank Skinner?...

    Skinner confessed and the confession was deemed inadmissible, but is part of the appellate record.

    A "completely incapacitated" Skinner, somehow, traveled the 4 blocks from the murder scene, went to his ex girlfriends house, hid in her closet and he was covered in blood from the crime scene.

    Skinner`s own blood spatter expert found that Skinner`s "passed out" story was inconsistent with the blood being all over Skinner.

    Skinner`s defense is that he was completely incapacitated the night of the murders, which is contradicted by his confession, by the blood spatter evidence and by his travels to his ex girlfriends house?

    Why did Skinner chose to walk the 4 blocks to his ex girlfriends house, instead of calling the police?

    Skinner refused additional DNA testing because he was implicated by the prior, multiple DNA tests, pre trial, that tied him to the crime scene and he didn`t want more DNA to hurt his case.

    The only reason for such denial of additional DNA testing is that Skinner knew additional DNA evidence would harm him even more.

    Skinner, his defense counsel and other death penalty opponents are saying that the untested DNA will prove Skinner innocent, meaning that Skinner decided, pre trial, that it was better to face a death sentence than to face freedom, the only "logic" for Skinner`s refusal of the additional DNA testing, when he "knew" it would prove his innocence. Absurd, of course.

    Could this be another anti death penalty fraud? Of course.

    Sincerely,

    Dudley Sharp
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    Houston, Texas

    Mr. Sharp has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX, NBC, NPR, PBS , VOA and many other TV and radio networks, on such programs as Nightline, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The O`Reilly Factor, etc., has been quoted in newspapers throughout the world and is a published author.

    A former opponent of capital punishment, he has written and granted interviews about, testified on and debated the subject of the death penalty, extensively and internationally.


    http://thesop.org/story/20111106/tex...confessed.html

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    The Guilt of Texas death row inmate Henry "Hank" Skinner

    Dudley Sharp

    cc: to hundreds in the media and many others

    Skinner confessed and the confession was deemed inadmissible, but is part of the appellate record.

    Skinner offered to plead guilty to one of the three murders, in exchange for a life sentence. The plea was refused.

    Skinner would have us believe that a completely incapacitated Skinner, somehow, traveled the 4 blocks from the murder scene, somehow, found his ex girlfriend's house, somehow, had the sense to hide in her closet, all while he was covered in blood from the crime scene.

    Skinner's own blood spatter expert found that Skinner's "passed out" story was inconsistent with the blood being all over Skinner.

    Skinner's defense is that he was completely incapacitated the night of the murders, a defense which is contradicted by his confession, by the blood spatter evidence and by his travels to his ex girlfriend's house?

    Why did Skinner chose to walk the 4 blocks to his ex girlfriends house, instead of calling the police?

    Skinner refused additional DNA testing because he was implicated by the prior, multiple DNA tests, pre trial, that tied him to the crime scene and he didn't want more DNA to hurt his case.

    The only reason for such denial of additional DNA testing is that Skinner knew additional DNA evidence would harm him even more.

    Skinner, his defense counsel and other death penalty opponents are saying that the untested DNA will prove Skinner innocent, meaning that Skinner decided, pre trial, that it was better to face a death sentence than to face freedom, the only "logic" for
    Skinner's refusal of the additional DNA testing, when he "knew" it would prove his innocence. Absurd, of course.

    Could this just be another anti death penalty fraud?

    Why not test the additional DNA?

    What Texas is attempting to prevent, now, in testing the additional DNA that Skinner refused to test, pre trial, is a very bad precedent, to wit:

    In a successful effort to delay his execution, even more, Skinner files motions to test the DNA material he had previously rejected testing, pre trial.

    If Skinner succeeds, this sets a precedent that, within certain cases, which can be managed, just so, the defendant will be able to go back and say, wait a minute, I don't like the outcome of my trial, because of the strategy I chose, I want a do-over, via new trial or appeals, so maybe I can get a better result next time.

    It is a horrible precedent, which the state must fight and for which all criminals, defense counsel and their supporters are drooling over, both for very good and obvious reasons.

    Some in the media, inexcusably, are not presenting those facts to their readers

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudleysharp View Post
    Some in the media, inexcusably, are not presenting those facts to their readers
    The Dallas Morning News, The Texas Tribune, and as of late The Houston Chronicle have all stated their opposition to the death penalty. How can a news source which has admitted bias be trusted to report the whole truth? They can't be trusted.

    Thank you for your factual post Mr. Sharp, and welcome to Crime and Capital Punishment.

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    Hank Skinner Asks Gov. Perry for 30-Day Execution Reprieve

    Today, lawyers for Skinner, whose execution is set for November 9, asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to issue a 30-day reprieve in the case.

    Prosecutors argue that Skinner–who came within hours of death last year– is trying to delay justice. They say that Skinner’s lawyers made the conscious decision at trial to forgo the DNA testing because they feared it would further implicate their client. Texas officials say that Skinner shouldn’t be able to demand the testing post-conviction.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...tion-reprieve/

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    Hank Skinner, Texas Death Row Inmate, Granted Stay Of Execution By Court Of Criminal Appeals

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Hank Skinner Monday, who was scheduled to be executed Nov. 9.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1080422.html

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    I'm shocked. How long is the stay for? Is it true the stay is not for the actual testing but just to see IF he gets to get tested?

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