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PBS Frontline to Spotlight Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

The season premiere of Frontline is tomorrow night,"Death by Fire." The documentary will broadcast Tuesday, October 19th at 9 pm (EDT) / 8 pm (CDT.)  "Did Texas execute an innocent man?," is the press release. Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it?s the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham -- convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children -- that?s now at the center of the national debate.In Death by Fire, FRONTLINE?s season premiere, airing Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE gains unique access to those closest to the Willingham case -- meticulously examining the evidence used to convict Willingham, offering an in-depth portrait of those most impacted by the case, and exploring the explosive implications of the execution of a possibly innocent man...continue to full post

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