Texas execution nears as condemned man seeks DNA test

Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 Henry Skinner is scheduled to become the 450th person to be executed in the state since judicial killing resumed in the USA in 1977. If the State of Texas has its way, it will execute Henry Watkins Skinner shortly after 6pm local time on 24 February. This would be the 450th execution in Texas since judicial killing resumed in the USA in 1977. More than one in three of the nearly 1,200 men and women killed in US execution chambers over the past three decades have met their death at the hands of Texas executioners. Such geographic disparity is just one aspect of…

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