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Pampa man on death row for triple murder dies 7 months before execution date

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A Pampa man on death row for the murders of his live-in girlfriend and her two adult sons died seven months before his latest scheduled execution date.According

Henry "Hank" Watkins Skinner (Credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice) ]

File photo of Henry "Hank" Watkins Skinner

Henry "Hank" Watkins Skinner (Credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

GALVESTON, Texas (KVII) — A Pampa man on death row for the murders of his live-in girlfriend and her two adult sons died seven months before his latest scheduled execution date.

According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Henry "Hank" Skinner died at 12:10 p.m. of natural causes at Hospital Galveston.

"Skinner had a significant medical event on Feb. 13 and has been receiving medical care since that time," said TDCJ.

On New Year’s Eve 1993, Skinner he choked and beat Twila Busby with a wooden ax handle and stabbed Randolph Busby and Elwin Calerwith a kitchen knife.

He was convicted in 1995.

But Skinner maintained his innocence, claiming that he was unconscious on the couch at the time of the murders, intoxicated from a mixture of vodka and codeine

He was scheduled to be executed on Sept. 13.

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