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Cameron Todd Willingham to be reinvestigated

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the Innocence Project The Texas State Forensic Science Commission agreed Friday to investigate possible negligence or misconduct in the Cameron Todd Willingham case. Willingham was executed in 2004 for allegedly murdering his three young children by setting his Corsicana home on fire in 1991. An independent panel of arson experts subsequently found that the fire was not arson. In May 2006, the Innocence Project formally submitted a request to the Commission to review arson convictions statewide-particularly in the Willingham case. The Commission’s investigation marks the first time that a state has reviewed a possible wrongful execution. Read the Houston Chronicle article about the investigation here. Read the Associated Press article here...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).