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Todd Willingham and the Forensice Science Commission

By Steve Hall

As it has done before, the Innocence Project is webcasting today's Forensic Science Commission meeting at this LINK."Texans wonder if they executed an innocent man," is the CNN report posted as the Forensic Science Commission meets.A Texas state board is set Friday to revisit questions surrounding a controversial 2004 execution, with supporters of the man's family warning the panel is trying to bury its own critical review of the case. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for a fire that killed his three daughters. Prosecutors argued that Willingham deliberately set the 1991 blaze -- but three reviews of the evidence by outside experts have found the fire should not have been ruled arson.The last of those reports was ordered by the Texas Forensic Sciences Commission, which has been looking into Willingham's execution since 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).