Attorney general agrees to seek DNA testing in 1993 Pampa slaying

Reversing its decade-long objection to testing that Death Row inmate Hank Skinner says could prove his innocence, the Texas attorney general's office filed an advisory with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals seeking to test DNA in the case.

"Upon further consideration, the State believes that the interest of justice would best be served by DNA testing the evidence requested by Skinner and by