Error-prone death penalty system ensnares innocent. Houston Chronicle [By JOHN HOLDRIDGE and CHRISTOPHER HILL HOUSTON CHRONICLE Sept. 18, 2009]
"Cameron Todd Willingham's unthinkable story has shocked the conscience of many Americans. The state of Texas executed Willingham in 2004 for supposedly murdering his three children by setting their house on fire. His conviction was based in substantial part on testimony by the state's arson experts about the cause of the fire. A recent report by a fire expert hired by Texas condemns the state's arson testimony as bogus and unscientific. In other words, Willingham almost certainly was innocent — as he desperately maintained until his last dying breath..."
