Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

An Important Update on the Todd Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

"Cameron Todd Willingham case: Expert says fire for which father was executed was not arson," is the title of Steve Mills' report for the Chicago Tribune.  Here's an extended excerpt from this must-read:In a withering critique, a nationally known fire scientist has told a state commission on forensics that Texas fire investigators had no basis to rule a deadly house fire was an arson -- a finding that led to the murder conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. The finding comes in the first state-sanctioned review of an execution in Texas, home to the country's busiest death chamber. If the commission reaches the same conclusion, it could lead to the first-ever declaration by an official state body that an inmate was wrongly executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).