By Tom Meyer/Daily Northwestern
A Texas inmate is scheduled for execution Wednesday despite efforts by the Medill Innocence Project to force the state court to approve DNA testing that could clear him of the charges.
In 1995, Henry “Hank” Skinner was convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, along with the murders of her two adult sons, but has maintained his innocence ever since. In 2000, theMedill Innocence Project, which funds
Northwestern’s journalism class in investigating potential wrongful convictions, began looking into his case and advocating for further DNA testing.
David Protess, the founder and former director of the Medill Innocence Project, said unless an appeals court or Texas Gov. Rick Perry intervenes, Skinner will be executed.
“The problem is Texas is moving as fast as they can to execute,”Protess said. “That’s what’s so friggin’ outrageous here is that they’re trying to put to death a man who has a reasonable claim to moretesting.”
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GREENVILLE – People who picked up a copy of Tuesday’s edition of The East Carolinian were in for quite a surprise, at least members of ECU’s administration were.
The student-run newspaper at East Carolina chose to run unedited photos of John Sieglinger’s now-infamous naked run across the field at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium during halftime of the Pirates’ game Saturday against Southern Miss. Now, administration at the university has responded to that decision.
Virginia Hardy, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, said in a statement released to the media that the decision to run the unedited photos was “in very poor taste” and that the leadership at ECU does not support that decision.
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Hello readers,
I want to apologize for not updating this blog in years. I’m working as a full-time reporter and I just can’t find the time for blogging. I ask you to be patient and look around the site. You might find some of the info helpful one day, and since press censorship has had the same fundamental reasons and consequences, it will never be outdated.
If you would like to post something in this blog or if you have been a victim of press censorship, feel free to send me an email at studentjournalists(at)gmail.com
I’ll find the time to put it online, I promise.
Good luck and never stop digging
Monica
Georgino Orellana is the seventh journalist murdered in Honduras in a month. Watch this video by Reporters without Borders to understand the environment of threat and hostility in which journalists work and live every day in this country.
I just found out the Student Press website. It’s a project from Trinidad and Tobago to promote democratic values and journalism to students across the country. It also promotes teen talent and expression. Congrats to the project, I wish there were more initiatives like this in other countries. Check out the website at:
During a q&a session, College student Mahmoud Vahidnia told Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “I don’t know why in this country it’s not allowed to make any kind of criticism of you.” Now, that takes courage. Read the rest of the story by the AP here.
A group of students were arrested for protesting at the Senate House in Brazil. Read the complete story here, or watch this video:
The increasingly popular picture of Obama with make up “a-la-Joker” was removed from the Flickr service. This story published on Read Write Read explains the details and poses the question: copyright infrigement or political censorship? Read the story here.
The main opposition newspaper in Iran, Etemad-e-Melli, was shut down by the government for publishing what authorities refer to as “illegal” and “criminal” content. The newspaper editor-in-chief is former presidential candidate and clerical reformist Mehdi Karrubí. To read the rest of the story click here.
