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Injustice Texas Style

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Jonathan Alter's column in the current issue of Newsweek.  It's subtitled, "Restoring Cameron Willingham?s reputation."  Here's an extended excerpt: Willingham, the subject of a New Yorker piece last year, was executed in 2004. Afterward, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, now clinging to a lead in the polls over former Houston mayor Bill White, seemingly did everything he could to cover up evidence clearing Willingham. Instead of allowing an investigation to proceed, Perry last year fired members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission who exposed the ?evidence? used to convict him. (Perry felt the commission was biased.)?The governor?s office had access to an affidavit that it was faulty science, and either ignored it or dismissed it,? says former Texas governor Mark White (no relation to Bill)...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).