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Today's Willingham News Coverage

By Steve Hall

Today's Temple Daily Telegram has, "Texas House speaker visits Temple's economic engines," in which Joe Straus comments on the case.  It's written by Janice Gibbs.Straus commented on the recent news coverage about the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham of Corsicana and fire investigation, criticized as flawed, that played a role in him receiving the death penalty. Willingham was convicted for the December 1991 deaths of his three children, who died in a fire that investigators said he started. The latest report was a 16,000-word article in the Sept. 7 edition of The New Yorker magazine. Straus said he was aware of the recent article, but had no plans as speaker of the house to revisit the death penalty. ?We?re in a period where I have asked members of the House to submit items for interim studies, so I?m always open-minded to whatever the members seem to want to look at,? he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).