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News Coverage of the Forensic Science Commission Meeting

By Steve Hall

Here's the news coverage of Friday's meeting of the Forensic Science Commission meeting.  The next post will contain commentary. "Texas panel re-examines arson execution case," is the AP report via Google News. The execution of a Texas man for the deaths of his three small children in a house fire came under renewed scrutiny Friday as a state panel heard from arson experts who reviewed the evidence that sent Cameron Todd Willingham to the death chamber seven years ago. The Texas Forensic Science Commission invited the fire experts to testify amid the Innocence Project's insistence that Willingham was convicted with faulty evidence and was innocent when he was put to death in 2004. The New York-based organization specializes in wrongful conviction cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).