New Moratorium Hopes



An anti-death penalty group hopes new evidence that Texas may have 
executed an innocent man will finally put the death chamber on 
pause.  The Chicago Tribune reports that an expert hired by the Texas 
Forensic Science Commission says the fire that killed Cameron Todd 
Willingham’s three daughters was accidental, not arson.  Willingham 
was convicted, sentenced to death and executed in 2004 for setting 
that fatal fire.  The Texas Moratorium Network’s Scott Cobb says that 
should change public and legislative opinion about a death penalty 
moratorium.  “People of Texas and the policymakers take very 
seriously the possibility of an innocent person being executed and 
how that reflects on Texas.”  This expert is not the first to come to 
the conclusion that the fatal fire was an accident and not arson.

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