Getting your player ready...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the execution of condemned prisoner Hank Skinner on Wednesday, about an hour before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber.
Skinner asked the court and Gov. Rick Perry for the delay for DNA testing that he insisted could clear him. The brief order grants him the delay but does not ensure he will get such testing.
Skinner, 47, faced lethal injection for the bludgeoning and strangling of his girlfriend, 40-year-old Twila Jean Busby, and the stabbings of her two adult sons in Pampa, Texas, on New Year’s Eve 1993.
