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News Coverage of Friday's FSC Meeting

By Steve Hall

"Texas prosecutor denies showing bias in arson case," is the AP report, via Google News. A Texas prosecutor accused of bias for describing an executed man as a "guilty monster" defended his comments Friday, while his colleagues on a commission investigating the case said he might have jeopardized the integrity of their inquiry.Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley said lawyers trying to clear Cameron Todd Willingham's name are using the case to further their effort to abolish the death penalty. He also argued that he has a First Amendment right to state his opinion."We are being used, and we should recognize that," Bradley said. "When do we get to respond to those lies? Who is going to correct the record?"Willingham was convicted in 1992 of capital murder in the deaths of his three daughters and executed in 2004...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).