Texas to review arson case that ended in execution



  August 15, 2008

 

 

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas panel will investigate whether a man      executed 
for setting a fire that killed his three daughters actually started 
the blaze.

The Texas Forensic Science Commission agreed Friday to review 
conclusions that Cameron Todd Willingham set the fire in 1991. He was 
executed in 2004.

It will be the first investigation by the commission, created in 2005 
to look into allegations of forensic misconduct in the nation's 
busiest capital punishment state.

The Innocence Project, a legal group that works to overturn wrongful 
convictions, says experts in a report it commissioned concluded the 
fire was not intentionally set.

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