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Willingham Court of Inquiry Coverage

By Steve Hall

"Judge postpones Willingham case," is the title of this morning's Austin American-Statesman report by Steven Kreytak. A much-anticipated inquiry into whether Cameron Todd Willingham was wrongly executed in 2004 was postponed Wednesday after state District Judge Charlie Baird said he needed more time to review a motion seeking his recusal from the case and to allow lawyers for Willingham?s family to respond.Baird announced to his packed Travis County courtroom that he would reset the proceedings for Oct. 14 at 1:30 p.m.Willingham was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of his three young daughters, who died from a fire at his Corsicana home in 1991. He publicly maintained his innocence until his death.Shortly before he was executed, the first in what would become a string of experts concluded that there was no scientific basis to determining that the fire was intentionally set...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).