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Hearing Set for Willingham Court of Inquiry

By Steve Hall

"Baird to hold hearing on Willingham execution," is the title of Steven Kreytak's report in this morning 's Austin American-Statesman. State District Judge Charlie Baird said Monday that he would hold a hearing in his Travis County courtroom next week to determine whether Texas wrongly executed Cameron Todd Willingham, convicted of murdering his three young children by setting fire to his Corsicana home in 1991.Baird said in an e-mail that a man who once testified that Willingham confessed to him about burning his house down with his children inside could be among the witnesses to testify during the hearing, set for the afternoons of Oct. 6 and 7.But the critical evidence in the case will probably be claims by a string of experts who have found in recent years that fire investigators who testified at Willingham's 1992 Navarro County trial ruled the fire was arson based on theories that have been disproved by updated science...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).