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Questions Surface After Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an OpEd written for Colorado's Durango Herald by Dr. Carol Huser, a forensic pathologist and the La Plata County corone.  It appeared in the Monday edition.  LINK A few weeks before Willingham's scheduled execution in February 2004, Dr. Gerald Hurst, a highly regarded fire investigator in Austin, reviewed the case for Willingham's attorney. Reading through the files, Hurst was amazed at the conclusions. His report described the crazed-glass concept as ?an old wives' tale." The other findings on which the original investigators had based their conclusion that an accelerant was used were typical of a ?flashover" - the explosive inferno that results when a structure fire reaches a critical temperature...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).