The bloody-minded, death-obsessed state of Texas, which has already demonstrably executed at least one innocent man, may be about to execute yet another innocent man.
This time it's Hank Skinner, 47, a man who has spent 16 years on the state's busy death row protesting his innocence in the 1993 New Year's Eve murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, aged 20 and 22.
The thing about Skinner's case is it would be relatively easy to prove whether or not he was really the killer of the three.
There are two bloody knives that have never been tested for Skinner's DNA - or for the DNA of Twila's uncle, the man who had reportedly made several unwanted sexual advances on her earlier that evening, leading her to leave a party early, and who Skinner claims is the real killer.
Nor was semen that was found on Twila Busby, who was raped, or skin found under her fingernails, ever DNA tested to see who they belonged to.
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