Innocent and Executed
This is Todd Willingham’s family who continue to fight tenaciously for justice for Todd. Before his execution, Todd had told his parents, “Please don’t ever stop fighting to vindicate me.” In this picture are Todd’s family members at the Texas Forensic Science Commission in Dallas on Sept 17. They won’t ever give up, and we won’t give up standing beside them.
From the Dallas Morning News: The Texas Forensic Science Commission rebelled Friday against its head commissioner, refusing to accept his draft report clearing arson investigators of misconduct or negligence in a 1991 fatal fire where flawed science was used to determine the blaze was intentionally set. RON HEFLIN/Special Contributor Texas Forensic Science Commission Chairman John Bradley, seated next to counsel Barbara Deane, pushed members to end their investigation by voting that misconduct did not occur in the 1991 arson case of Cameron Todd Willingham. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for killing his three children by setting that blaze.
The Texas Forensic Science Commission will meet in Dallas on Sept 17 to discuss and vote on a final report regarding the Todd Willingham case. Below is a draft of the final report that will be discussed at the meeting. The meeting is at the Embassy Suites Hotel Dallas Love Field, 3880 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas, United States 75220 (Map and directions). The meeting starts at 9:30 AM, but is expected to last till late afternoon. The public comment period will be at the end of the meeting. Anyone can make public comments to the Commission. Members of Texas Moratorium Network plan to attend
11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 2 PM Austin, Texas Texas State Capitol Building South Side (11th and Congress) The 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held in Austin on October 30, 2010 at 2 PM at the Texas Capitol. Confirmed guests this year include exonerated former death row prisoners Shujaa Graham, Ron Keine, Curtis McCarty and Greg Wilhoit. Curtis spent 21 years in prison – including 19 years on death row – in Oklahoma for a crime he did not commit. Shujaa spent 3 years on death row
THOUGHT PROVOKING JOURNALISM ON AIR AND ONLINE Oct. 19, 2010 60 minutes Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it’s the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham — convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children — that’s now at the center of the national debate. With unique access to those closest to the case, FRONTLINE examines the Willingham conviction in light of new science that raises doubts about whether the fire at the center of the case was really arson at all. The
From the Austin American Statesman: The State Fire Marshal’s Office stands behind its controversial conclusion that Cameron Todd Willingham started the house fire that killed his three children in 1991, contradicting arson experts and scientists who insist the agency relied on bad science in its investigation. In a pointed letter to the Texas Forensic Science Commission , which is nearing the end of a contentious review of the Willingham arson investigation, Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado defended his agency’s handling of the case that led to Willingham’s execution in 2004. In July, the commission announced a tentative finding that investigators employed
The Texas Forensic Science Commission is having a meeting in Dallas on Sept 17 that may be the final meeting in which they discuss and vote on a final report regarding the Todd Willingham case. The meeting is at the Embassy Suites Hotel Dallas Love Field, 3880 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, Texas, United States 75220 (Map and directions). The meeting starts at 9:30 AM, but is expected to last till late afternoon. The public comment period will be at the end of the meeting. Anyone can make public comments to the Commission. Members of Texas Moratorium Network plan to attend the meeting. If you can be