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ABC 20/20 to Examine Willingham Case Friday

By Steve Hall

ABC News has posted, "Evidence Under Attack in Two Texas Arson Convictions," by Jay Schadler and Thomas Berman.  Arson charges can be difficult to rebut. But getting a conviction overturned can seem almost impossible -- even when the stakes are a matter of life and death. Todd Willingham may be a prime example. In 1992 he was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his three children in an arson fire in Corsicana, Texas. While Willingham awaited his execution day, virtually every piece of physical evidence against him was reviewed and pronounced inadequate by independent fire expert Gerald Hurst. Hurst has spent years arguing that hard science needs to be brought into fire investigations. "They said they found 20 indicators of arson...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).