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Perry's Certainty About Execution Ignores Science

By Steve Hall

That the title of a Dallas Morning News editorial.  It appeared in the Saturday edition.  LINK When a nationally respected fire engineer rebuked an arson investigation that sent a Texas man to his death, the country took notice. The question of whether our state executed an innocent man spurred a national discussion, as media outlets from Nightline to The New Yorker explored whether the fiery deaths of Cameron Todd Willingham's three young children were a tragic accident or capital murder. A growing number of experts have rejected the finding that the fire was arson, arguing that investigators relied on folklore and junk science to reach that unsupported conclusion. Most recently, an expert hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission issued a scathing report that detailed the many failings of the original arson-murder investigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).