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Chron.com
February 25, 2018
Three Texas cases will be featured in the upcoming season of HLN's "Death Row Stories," a true crime documentary series. ... The second episode, set to air on March 25, focuses on Hank Skinner, a Panhandle man convicted of battering his lover with an ax handle and stabbing her adult sons during aÃâà...
CNN (blog)
February 22, 2018
Narrated by Academỷ̨ Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon and featuring stories told by current and former death row inmates, each episode of Death Row Stories seeks to unravel the truth behind a different capital murder case and poses tough questions about the U.S. capital punishment system.
The Intercept
September 25, 2017
When hunters walking in the piney woods of Sam Houston National Forest in East Texas found the body of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter on January 2, 1999, her jeans were torn and her shirt was pulled up. There was tissue damage on her face from scavenging animals and a length of pantyhose, which hadÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
March 9, 2016
The long court fight over DNA testing for death row inmate Hank Skinner grew lengthier Wednesday when the state's highest criminal court ordered that a ... Skinner, sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of girlfriend Twila Busby and her two adult sons in the Panhandle city of Pampa, had long pressed forÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
July 16, 2014
A Gray County district judge ruled against Death Row inmate Hank Skinner this week, saying it was “reasonably probable” that Skinner would have been convicted of a triple murder even if DNA evidence, tested two years ago, had been available at his 1995 trial. Skinner, now 52, was convicted of killing hisÃâà...
Texas Tribune
July 16, 2014
A district court judge ruled against death row inmate Hank Skinner this week, saying it was “reasonably probable” Skinner would have still been convicted of a triple murder even if recently conducted DNA evidence had been available at his 1995 trial. Skinner was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, TwilaÃâà...
Amarillo.com
July 15, 2014
... that Hank Skinner is guilty of the murder of Twila Busby and her two sons,” Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for Abbott's office, said in a statement. “It has been almost 20 years since he was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment for the murders. Skinner got the additional DNA testing he asked for,Ãâà...
Texas Tribune
June 6, 2014
Lawyers for death row inmate Hank Skinner told a court, in documents filed Friday, that testing on long-sought-after DNA evidence in his case should be enough to forestall his execution. State prosecutors, who also submitted legal arguments on Friday, said the same evidence should convince the judge toÃâà...
KFDA
February 4, 2014
Update: It was back and forth between the State and Hank Skinner's defense team, arguing over DNA, something so small, that could make a huge difference. The State still says evidence collected from the 1993 crime scene links Hank Skinner to the murder of Twila Busby and her two sons. But Skinner's defense team saysÃâà...
Huffington Post (blog)
November 3, 2011
That includes blood from the murder weapon, blood from a jacket left in Busby's home, a rape kit taken from Busby, scrapings from under Busby's fingernails and hairs she was clutching at the time of her death — hairs that likely came from her killer. For more than a decade, Hank Skinner's legal team hasÃâà...
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