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Texas Grants Stay of Execution for Death Row Prisoner

HeadlineNov 08, 2011

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay of execution to Hank Skinner, who was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. Skinner was convicted of the 1993 deaths of his girlfriend and her two sons in Pampa, Texas. Questions have arisen over his guilt because multiple items from the crime scene have not been tested for DNA.

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