31st Judicial District Court Finds Against Hank Skinner
The court reviewed the all the evidence and found that the results would have not been favorable to Skinner.
The statement says if the evidence had originally been available during the original trial Skinner would have been convicted anyways.(sic)
The latest numbers:
The total cost to Gray County for his case is $341,200. This includes the cost of the original 1995 trial, the 1996 appeal and DNA testing that was performed in 2001.
Skinner has been incarcerated since March 31, 1995, which calculates to:
609,120,000 seconds
10,152,000 minutes
169,200 hours
7050 days
1007 weeks (rounded down)
While a spokesman with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice could not say the cost per day of housing a death-row inmate, he said the average cost per inmate is around $50.
Based on that number, taxpayers in Texas have spent about $347,250 to house Skinner on death-row.
Source: Pampa News
