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I expect this kind of nonsense from Whitehead, because it has become a pattern with his totally uninformed anti death penalty rhetoric. I expect better from Nat Hentoff.
There are solid reasons for the Texas AG and the DA to fight additional DNA testing in the Hank Skinner triple murder case.
There is substantial pre trial tested DNA and other blood evidence, as well as much additional evidence, which solidified Skinner's guilt in the original trial.
We have two confessions from Skinner and Skinner tried to plead guilty to a reduced sentence, all refuting the only defense that Skinner has put forth.
Make no mistake, it was Hank Skinner's decision not to test additional
DNA, pre trial.
Had Skinner known that additional pre trial DNA testing would have cleared
him, he would have ordered it. Look at what the cabal of "test the DNAers"
want us to believe:
That Skinner refused additional pre trial DNA testing, thereby taking the
risk of receiving the death penalty, intentionally, and making that choice
over taking the risk that he would be freed, instead.
Does anyone believe that nonsense?
The allegation that Skinner bowed to his original defense counsel's
demands to not test additional DNA, pre trial, holds no water. There is the
problem of Skinner responding to his counsel "OK, good call, I'll risk death over
freedom". Absurd, of course. Not to mention, Skinner does not bow to
anyone's wishes, unless he agrees with them.
Now comes Skinner, et al, meaning defense counsel, a bunch of "well
meaning" anti death penalty folks, with a smattering of the blindly ignorant,
crying "Test the DNA" - "what have you got to lose, except revealing you are
about to execute another innocent?".
Enter reality.
We already have DNA that implicates Skinner, as well as much additional
evidence that sent Skinner to death row for the murder of Twila and her two
mentally impaired sons.
Skinner's own experts said the DNA evidence against him was solid and that
the blood splatter evidence contradicted Skinner's description of events.
First and foremost, Skinner wishes to live longer, just as Twila and her
two sons did. That is the main reason for the appeals. Understandable.
What Texas is attempting to prevent, now, in testing the DNA that Skinner
refused to test, pre trial, is a very bad precedent, to wit:
In a successful effort to delay his execution, even more, Skinner files
motions to test the DNA material he had previously rejected testing, pre
trial.
If Skinner succeeds, this sets a precedent that, within certain cases,
which can be managed, just so, the defendant will be able to go back and say,
wait a minute, I don't like the outcome of my trial, because of the strategy
I chose, I want a do-over, via new trial or appeals, so maybe I can get a
better result next time.
It is a horrible precedent, which the state must fight and for which all
criminals and defense counsel are drooling over, both for very good and
obvious reasons.
Some in the media, inexcusably, are not presenting those well known facts
to their readers.
It is "the" important and only reason the state is fighting this fight - to
stop criminals, their attorneys and their supporters from gaming the
system, even more.
The state will, eventually, prevail, as it should and a triple murderer's
life will be justly taken.
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