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More Coverage of the Beyler Report on Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

"Report: Faulty fire investigation led to execution," is the title of Jamie Stengle's AP report via Google News.A fire investigation that led to the execution of a man in the deaths of his three young children was so seriously flawed that its conclusion of arson can't be supported, a fire expert hired by the state said in a new report.In a report to the Texas Forensic Science Commission released Tuesday, Craig Beyler said the fire investigation in Cameron Todd Willingham's case didn't adhere to the standards of care in place at the time, nor to current standards.Beyler, chairman of the London-based International Association for Fire Safety Science, said in the report that the opinions of a state fire official in the case were "nothing more than a collection of personal beliefs that have nothing to do with science-based fire investigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).