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Testing Phobia: Texas Set to Execute Another Innocent Man

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So far, inexplicably, the state of Texas has blocked his efforts to have the testing done. And time is growing very short. Skinner's execution is set for Wednesday, March 24. He and attorney Owen have asked the US Supreme Court to block the execution and to order testing. As Owen told the Los Angeles Times, "In any investigation today, all of this evidence would have been tested for DNA. But why not do the testing now?"


On March 19, six men who had spent a collective 67 years on death rows for crimes they were later able to prove they did not commit gathered to call on Texas to do the right thing, and allow time for DNA testing of the evidence in Skinner's case.


Curtis McCarty, who himself spent 21 years on Oklahoma's death row waiting to die, only to finally get DNA testing of evidence that finally proved his innocence, says, "When evidence is available to be tested, it is criminal and unconstitutional not to test it."


The gratuitously cruel attitude of the state of Texas, where the court of appeals rejected Skinner's request for DNA testing, and where Gov. Rick Perry has been unwilling to intervene, has been clearly illustrated in its treatment of Skinner's wife, Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, who has been barred for over 21 months from visiting her husband on death row, on the technicality that she is a foreigner (she is a French national).


Skinner came within a week of execution in February, when a state judge delayed the date for a month to allow his appeal to the US Supreme Court.


To take action on this outrageous case, and call on Gov. Perry to grant Skinner's reasonable request to have the evidence in his case DNA tested, go to:


Write Gov. Perry


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