No doubt you are receiving many communications urging you to stay again the execution of Hank Skinner.
Governor, if an innocent man dies at the hand of the State, there are two tragedies. One is that an innocent man has died. The other is that the guilty party is unpunished.
There are too many unresolved questions about the deaths of Twila Busby, and her two sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler for the State to accept the responsibility of executing Hank Skinner.
• There is untested blood and hair evidence.
• The State’s primary witness has recanted her testimony.
• There is testimony that Hank Skinner was too intoxicated to have been able to stand, much less beat one person to death and stab two others.
• Skinner had suffered a workplace injury years ago that rendered him incapable of causing the injuries suffered by Twila Busby.
• Skinner’s defense attorney had previously prosecuted him.
Governor, all anyone is asking for is a stay, and an order from your office to test the preserved evidence. You can do the easy thing, and accept the decisions of various judges, or you can do the hard thing, and make absolutely certain that the great State of Texas is administering justice properly by staying the execution of Hank Skinner until proper evidentiary testing is completed. I implore you as a native Texan, and great-grandson of an Austin city council member of some note: don’t risk executing an innocent man.
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