DNA tests could end death row inmate's 'nightmare'
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Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate granted new DNA testing in his case says his "nightmare is almost over."
Hank Skinner was convicted in the 1993 killings of his girlfriend and her two grown children. He once came within an hour of execution.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay.
Last month, the Texas Attorney General's office reversed its longstanding objection to running DNA tests on a list of 40 pieces of evidence.
Skinner tells the Houston Chronicle that he expects the tests will exonerate him. But like his attorneys, Skinner says he questions how prosecutors could not find a windbreaker found near the body of his girlfriend, Twila Busby.
His supporters argue Busby's now-deceased uncle may have committed the stabbings in Pampa, in the Texas Panhandle.
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS - For the first time after almost 17 years behind bars, a convicted killer from Pampa says it's possible he may have murdered his girlfriend and her two sons.
PAMPA, TEXAS - Every day since Hank Skinner's stay of execution last February, his victim's family has been checking the US Supreme Court web site, waiting for a decision about the 1993 crime.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent.
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