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Governor Perry Responds

By Steve Hall

"Perry defends disputed '04 execution of Corsicana man," is Todd Gillman's Dallas Morning News article from the Saturday edition.  It's datelined Washington, DC, where Perry made his comments.Gov. Rick Perry on Friday strenuously defended the execution of a Corsicana man whose conviction for killing his daughters in a house fire hinged on an arson finding that top experts call junk science. "I'm familiar with the latter-day supposed experts on the arson side of it," Perry said, making quotation marks with his fingers to underscore his skepticism. Even without proof that the fire was arson, he added, the court records he reviewed before the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004 showed "clear and compelling, overwhelming evidence that he was in fact the murderer of his children...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).