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On November 10, 2007, Al Jazeera International aired a two-part program entitled "American Justice - Fatal Flaws", the second part of which deals with wrongful convictions and evokes Hank's case and that of Curtis McCarty, who was exonerated from Oklahoma death row after 22 years.
As of February 2010, the Hank Skinner case is included in the Medill Innocence project of Professor David Protess.
On February 24, Amarillo News Channel 10 posted its full, unedited exclusive 30-minute interview with Hank Skinner.
In March, 2010, The Skeptical Juror site carried a 10-part series reprising the facts of the Hank Skinner case.
On March 24, the evening Skinner's execution was stayed, Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner and Curtis McCarty, a former inmate on Oklahoma's death row who was exonerated by post-trial DNA analysis, were interviewed on Larry King Live. Both pleaded against the denial of analysis of the full available evidence and expressed their belief that Skinner is innocent.
On April 4, Twila Busby's daughter Lisa and Busby's uncle Dave Brito "broke years of silence" and gave an interview to News Channel 10 in Amarillo. Lisa was the only one in her family to survive the murders and chose "to stay at her aunt and uncles' place -- keeping away from home because she was scared her mom's boyfriend might turn violent after drinking that night at a New Year's Eve party." Lisa Busby also appeared to advocate for Skinner's execution. "We're suffering. We have no closure. We have no peace because he's still alive," she said. Lisa finished her interview by agreeing that the testing needed to be done, saying "I mean test the DNA and get it over with That way we have something of peace and closure."
On April 22, 2010, Skinner wrote Channel 10 a letter to "clarify" statements he made in an interview that was aired nationally.
On May 3 Channel 10 produced a followup piece containing Skinner's letter to them regarding the statement he made. The statement in question related to the "violent stabbing and death of the beating victims" in the February interview. On camera, Skinner said referring to the murders: "if it had to happen and it had to go that way I wished I had 'uv done it because I wouldn't have done 'em like that."
On May 5, Skinner took issue with "false and undocumented allegations" circulating on the web.
On May 25, 2010, Time Magazine published an article about the case: "In death penalty case, innocence has to matter".
On June 10, 2010, "Politics Daily" published a report of recent interviews of former jurors at Skinner's trial, which states "Many of the jurors interviewed were taken aback by the amount of untested evidence, stunned that even the blood on two of the murder weapons had not been analyzed. The seven jurors agreed that all the evidence should undergo DNA analysis"
On November 8, 2011, in the Huffington Post, David Protess described the succession of District Attorneys who have so far prevented the DNA from being tested.
On March 22, 2012 episode 1 of the UK Channel 4 series "Death Row" focused on an hour long interview granted with Skinner. Taken from 4's site: "Death Row is a documentary series written and directed by legendary feature filmmaker Werner Herzog."
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