Skinner Wins Reprieve

From the Houston Chronicle online:

Texas inmate set to die next week wins reprieve

HOUSTON — A condemned inmate set to die next week for a triple slaying 16 years ago in the Texas Panhandle has had his execution date put off for a month.

Henry Watkins Skinner, 47, faced lethal injection Feb. 24 for the 1993 New Year's Eve killings of Twila Jean Busby, 40, and her two grown sons at their trailer home in Pampa.

State District Judge Steven Emmert on Tuesday reset Skinner's date to March 24 to resolve what lawyers said was a timing problem with the original death warrant.

The judge said the paperwork was not completed properly within 10 days of when he signed the warrant last November and Skinner's attorneys had filed a motion to have the warrant dissolved.

"I figured the safest bet was to back up and start over," Emmert said Wednesday.

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More news articles:

Texas execution nears as condemned man seeks DNA test

TribBlog: Skinner Execution Postponed

Delay for Skinner execution, but that's all?

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Meant to add this link to my previous article:

Official Hank Skinner site

Castaway's Great Ending

Following a Google UK link from a hit on this blog's "Cast Away" posts, I discovered this blog post: Grace and Truth to You: Castaway's Great Ending and Lessons Learned When Facing A New Crossroads in Life

It's a great post with photos taken from a trip to the crossroads and ranch house, but like so many other forum threads and blog posts on the 'net, the comments veer off into politics.

It even brings into play Godwin's law; what I'd like to know...and even though the post was on a minister's blog, and said nothing about politics, I have to ask...is what the hell does Hitler have to do with this fantastic movie? I know it's not part of the post and is instead in the comments section, but still....

Granted, I didn't read all the replies after the political angle was brought up, but my eyeballs sometimes glaze over when I see this sort of discussion.

hypnagogic

hypnagogic \hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik\ , adjective;
1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.

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Most of the time I try to make some smarmy remark about these words, or accompany them with a feeble attempt at humor, but there are a few times where I actually learn something.

Following the link on the definition page, I learned the name for what I often experience just before drifting off to sleep: hypnagogic jerk. It used to freak me out when I'd do that, thinking the reason was because I had forgotten something very important I was supposed to do that day or it was a premonition that I was going to die in my sleep...both of which would upset me and pull me out of the "state of drowsiness".

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