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Governor Rick Perry defends execution of Corsicana man some experts say was innocent
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Oct 05, 2009 01:06pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Todd J. Gillman |
| Media | Newspaper - Dallas Morning News |
| News Date | Sunday, September 20, 2009 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Governor Rick Perry today strenuously defended the execution of a Corsicana man whose conviction for killing his daughters in a house fire hinged on an arson finding that top experts call junk science.
“I’m familiar with the latter-day supposed experts on the arson side of it,” Perry said, making quotation marks with his fingers to underscore his skepticism.
Even without proof that the fire was arson, he added, the court records he reviewed before the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004 showed “clear and compelling, overwhelming evidence that he was in fact the murderer of his children.”
These were the governor’s first direct comments on a case that has drawn withering criticism from top fire experts.
Death penalty critics view the Willingham case as a study in shoddy – or at least outdated – science, and they consider it the first proven instance in 35 years of an executed man being proven innocent after death. |
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