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Death row inmate Hank Skinner’s decade-long fight for DNA testing, which he hopes will prove his innocence in a grisly West Texas triple murder, will take center stage this morning in the state’s highest criminal court….
Who is able to pray for him, please, do this! Let the light shine about this innocent man!
Willingham Documentary Hits iTunes
http://www.incendiarymovie.com/INCENDIARY/watch_now.html |
Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST
After its national release in October, “Incendiary: The Willingham Case” is now available on DVD and through Apple’s iTunes Movie Store.
The film examines the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas for the murder of his children by arson and centers around evolving standards of scientific evidence and the notion that an innocent man was executed.
Additional information about the film is available on the film’s website.
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Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul ended an interview with CNN after he was questioned about a hate-filled newsletter that was published under his name.
The newsletters were published about 20 years ago and contained a number of incendiary comments about African-Americans, such as referring to Martin Luther King Jr. Day as “Hate Whitey Day.” All of the newsletters featured his name, but Paul has said he did not write the racist language.
“So you read them, but you didn’t do anything about it at the time?” CNN reporter Gloria Borger asked him on Wednesday.
“I never read that stuff,” Paul responded. “I became aware of it probably ten years after it was written, and it has been going on for twenty years that people have been pestering me about this, and CNN does it every single time. So when are you going to wear yourself out?”
“I didn’t write them, I didn’t read them at the time, and I disavow them,” he added, when pressed about the issue.
After Borger continued to question Paul about the newsletters, he started taking off his microphone and ended the interview.
Paul told CNN on Tuesday that the racist newsletters had resurfaced because his policies were winning, and it was the only way his opponents could discredit him.
Watch video, courtesy of CNN, below: And read more please: RAW STORY
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Texas’ highest criminal court this month stayed an impending execution date for Hank Skinner, who is seeking DNA tests on evidence that could prove his innocence.
Thousands of Innocence Project supporters spoke up for Skinner by calling on prosecutors to grant DNA tests. Stay tuned to the Innocence Blog for updates on the case.
And thousands of people in Germany & Europe spoke up for Hank Skinner.
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AFP – vor 19 Stunden
Für den US-Todeskandidaten Hank Skinner geht das Bangen weiter: Zwei Tage vor der Vollstreckung des Todesurteils ordnete ein texanisches Berufungsgericht überraschend an, den Antrag von Skinners Anwälten auf Zulassung von DNA-Proben zu prüfen. Der wegen dreifachen Mordes verurteilte 49-Jährige bestreitet die Tat und bekam schon 2010 einen Aufschub – eine Stunde vor der Hinrichtung.
Skinners Anwälte hatten mehrfach beantragt, am Tatort gefundene Spuren genetisch zu analysieren, um die Unschuld ihres Mandanten zu beweisen. Nachdem erst am Donnerstag ein texanisches Gericht dem Todeskandidaten die Tests erneut verweigerte, legten die Anwälte dagegen Berufung ein. Das Berufungsgericht befand, dass sich die Gesetzgebung zu DNA-Proben in den vergangenen Jahren mehrfach geändert habe, was bisher nicht berücksichtigt worden sei. Deshalb solle der Antrag nun geprüft werden. …
Please, read the whole article there AFP – I am sure, You´ll find it in English, too!
| Hank Skinner’s Continued Fight for DNA Testing
Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:55 PM PDT www.InnocenceProject.org A Texas judge denied death row inmate Hank Skinner’s request for DNA testing in an order that became public Thursday. While the state remains poised to execute Skinner on Wednesday, November 9, more than 100,000 supporters have signed petitions calling on Gray County District Attorney Lynn Switzer to grant DNA tests.
Supporters have declared today a day of action for Skinner, please join us in writing Switzer to allow DNA tests before it’s too late. Read more about Skinner’s fight in news coverage this week above! |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-denies-texas-death-row-inmates-request-for-dna-tests-less-than-week-before-
execution/2011/11/03/gIQAX1U7iM_story.html
Judge denies Texas death row inmate’s request for DNA tests, less than week before execution
By Associated Press, Published: November 3
HOUSTON — A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate’s request for testing of DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence, less than a week before the man is set to be executed.
Hank Skinner, 49, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for the 1993 deaths of his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner’s attorneys had asked for testing of DNA evidence that was not tested before his 1995 trial…
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