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No More Foot Dragging on the Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News.  LINK   Here's an extended excerpt:The head of the Texas Forensic Science Commission needs to demonstrate today that he's not playing stall ball in the politically explosive arson-murder case of Cameron Todd Willingham. A complaint to the commission about forensic work that led to Willingham's conviction and execution will reach its fourth anniversary next week. For two of those years, the commission couldn't be accused of indifference, since it had been limping along without money, telephone or even a full-time staff member. But the commission has been sitting on the Willingham matter for months, with a damning expert's report in its lap...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).