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The Latest Commentary on Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

If you missed Tuesday broadcast of the PBS Frontline documentary, "Death by Fire," you can watch the complete episode at the link. "Junk science and the death penalty, a toxic combination," that's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle, and it begins the latest Todd Willingham news coverage. It's been six years since Cameron Todd Willingham was executed at age 36 for the arson murder of his three young daughters at the family home in Corsicana in 1991. But his case is far from over. In fact, it has become a catalyst for an intense debate on Texas justice, on the prevalence of "junk science" in Texas courts and on the validity of the death penalty itself. Willingham consistently protested his innocence, and even before his death in 2004, experts had raised serious doubts that he had set the fire that killed his children...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).