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Texas Executed an Innocent Person: Cameron Todd Willingham

By "Persian Cowboy"

The Chicago Tribune is breaking the story that the investigator for the Texas Forensic Science Commission is going to report that the fire for which Cameron Todd Willingham was sentenced to death for setting to murder his children was an accidental fire and not arson. Willingham always maintained his innocence. If the TFSC takes the investigator's report and accepts his conclusions then it could acknowledge in its own report that Texas has executed an innocent person. The Chicago Tribune first reported on Willingham's possible innocence in 2004 and followed up in 2006.Excerpt: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...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).