False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?

In January 2016, Charles Flores, a Texas prisoner, was moved to death watch, where inmates awaiting execution spend their final months. Seventeen years earlier, Flores had been convicted of murdering a woman in a Dallas suburb in the course of a robbery, a crime he says he did not commit. All of his appeals had been denied and his lethal injection was scheduled for 2 June.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/04/false-witness-us-using-hypnosis-convict-criminals?source=Snapzu