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"Texas hires arson expert to study fatal 1991 fire for which Cameron Todd Willingham was executed," is Steve Mills' report in today's Chicago Tribune.In 2004, four fire experts told the Chicago Tribune that the fire that had sent Cameron Todd Willingham to Death Row and later to his execution in Texas might have been an accident rather than a crime. Nearly two years later, a panel of four other experts who reviewed the case for the Innocence Project came to a similar conclusion, saying the State of Texas had convicted and executed Willingham based on forensic evidence that no longer was considered scientifically valid. Now what may be the final verdict on the fire, and on Willingham's execution, will be delivered by a Maryland "He appears to be one of the pre-eminent people in the fire and arson investigation field," Samuel Bassett, an Austin attorney and commission member, said of Beyler...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).