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Texas killed an innocent man?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed a ways back in Texas.  The evidence strongly suggest it was an oopsie of an execution. The Chicago Tribune notes: In a withering critique, a nationally known fire scientist has told a state commission on forensics that Texas fire investigators had no basis to rule a deadly house fire was an arson — a finding that led to the murder conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. The finding comes in the first state-sanctioned review of an execution in Texas, home to the country’s busiest death chamber. If the commission reaches the same conclusion, it could lead to the first-ever declaration by an official state body that an inmate was wrongly executed. Indeed, the report concludes there was no evidence to determine that the December 1991 fire was even set, and it leaves open the possibility the blaze that killed three children was an accident and there was no crime at all — the same findings found in a Chicago Tribune investigation of the case published in December 2004...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).