DNA test casts doubt on case of executed Texas man

Friday, November 12, 2010

DALLAS -- A DNA test on a single hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was put to death 10 years ago for a liquor-store murder -- an execution that went forward after then-Gov. George W. Bush's staff failed to tell him the condemned man was asking for genetic analysis of the strand.

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