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A Lot of Todd Willingham News & Developments

By Steve Hall

As the Court of Inquiry was ending, the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals ordered a halt to the special hearing.  On another front the Forensic Science Commission is set to take up the Willingham/arson forensics investigation again. "Family?s Effort to Clear Name Frames Debate on Executions," is the report in today's New York Times written by John Schwartz. It was an unusual hearing. The subject at the center of it all, Cameron Todd Willingham, was not present. After being convicted of murdering his three children in a 1991 house fire, he was executed in 2004.Members of Mr. Willingham?s family, working with lawyers who oppose the death penalty, had asked for the rare and controversial hearing, held here on Thursday, to investigate whether Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).