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'''Henry Watkins "Hank" Skinner''' (born April 4, 1962) is a [[death row]] inmate in [[Texas]]. In 1995, he was convicted of bludgeoning to death his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and stabbing to death her two adult sons, Randy Busby and Elwin Caler. On March 24, 2010, twenty minutes before his scheduled execution (second execution date), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] issued a stay of execution to consider the question of whether Skinner could request testing of DNA his attorney chose not to have tested at his original trial in 1994. A third execution date for November 9, 2011, was also ultimately stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on November 7, 2011.
On March 6, 2011, the Supreme Court issued an opinion holding that Skinner may sue under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (
On November 14, 2012, the [[Texas Attorney General]]'s office released an advisory to the [[Gray County, Texas|Gray County]] state district court that convicted Skinner advising the court that the DNA testing further implicated Skinner in the Busby family murders. Among the findings: Skinner's blood was found in numerous places in the back bedroom where Busby's two sons were murdered.
On August 29, 2013, a private Virginia laboratory published the results of tests conducted on four hairs found in the hand of the slain woman, Twila Busby – and three of them show a family link with the three victims, but do not belong to them, with only one of them belonging to Skinner. These results could incriminate Robert Donnell, a deceased (1997) maternal uncle, who Twila Busby had told friends had molested her on multiple occasions and who had threatened her shortly before the murders. {{As of|2013|September}}, these findings had not yet been assessed by judicial authorities.<ref name="Brandi Grissom">{{cite news| url=http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2013/08/hank-skinner-dna-testing-results.html | work=The standdown Texas Project | first=Brandi | last=Grissom | title=Hank Skinner DNA Testing Results | date=August 30, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Jordan Smith">{{cite news|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2013-09-06/skinner-defense-new-dna-testing-suggests-his-innocence | work=Austin Chronicle| first=Jordan | last=Smith | title=Skinner Defense: New DNA Testing Suggests His Innocence | date=September 6, 2013}}</ref>
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