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Thursday, November 15, 2012  FULL DOCUMENTS: New DNA testing further implicates convicted murderer Hank Skinner for the crime, according to the Texas Attorney General.

Thursday, July 05, 2012  A Texas death row inmate granted new DNA testing in his case says his "nightmare is almost over."

Tuesday, June 12, 2012  Attorneys have agreed on items to be tested for DNA in the case of a Texas Panhandle man on death row for the slayings of his girlfriend and her two grown children.

Monday, November 07, 2011  Attorneys for a condemned triple killer facing execution this week are asking Texas Gov. Rick Perry to use his authority to grant a one-time 30-day reprieve so DNA testing can be conducted on evidence they contend could show inmate Henry Skinner is innocent.

Thursday, November 03, 2011  A judge has denied a Texas death row inmate's request to test DNA evidence his attorneys say could prove his innocence.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011  Hank Skinner has once again been scheduled to be executed.

Friday, July 02, 2010  Convicted killer Michael James Perry was executed Thursday evening for gunning down a nurse at her home north of Houston nine years ago and stealing her car.

Friday, February 26, 2010  Condemned inmate Richard Tabler, who used a smuggled cell phone to threaten a state senator from death row, has won a reprieve from his scheduled May execution.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009  Man who stabbed woman over thirty times put to death.

Thursday, February 05, 2009  David Martinez was convicted of using a baseball bat to bludgeon his girlfriend and her teenage son to death almost 15 years ago was put to death by lethal injection last night in the state death chamber.

Friday, January 23, 2009  A convicted rapist and suspected serial killer has been executed for strangling and robbing his stepmother in Fort Worth in 2000.