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Pennsylvania Arson Case Shadows Willingham Facts

By Steve Hall

"Junk science? Another inmate on death row fights to disprove arson," is the title of Stephanie Chen's post at CNN.  Here's a brief excerpt from the introduction:This is the story of two fathers who drank too much and fought with their wives but, their families say, loved their children more than anything in the world. The two never knew each other. One was in Texas and one in Pennsylvania, but each watched a fire swallow their home with their children inside.One father, Cameron Todd Willingham of Corsicana, Texas, was convicted on murder charges; authorities said he set the fire that killed his three children in 1991. He was executed by lethal injection in 2004.Across the country, at a prison outside of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where authorities say they hold the "worst of the worst," is 50-year-old Daniel Dougherty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).