New at Reason: Radley Balko on the Pending Execution of Hank Skinner

February 22, 2010

Is Texas about to execute another man who may be innocent? The state has recently made headlines after forensic experts and the New Yorker made a compelling case that Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2003, may have been innocent. Now Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko writes about the case of Hank Skinner, due to be executed next month. As Balko writes, the problem in Skinner's case is that there's significant biological evidence from the crime scene that prosecutors refuse to submit for DNA testing. So far, they've been backed by the courts. Hank Skinner may or may not be innocent of the 1993 murders for which he's about to be executed. The disturbing thing is that Texas officials seem more interested in "finality" than in finding out.

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