A panel is set to meet this week regarding whether or not a man was wrongly executed in Texas for a crime he didn’t commit.
Even while he was awaiting his execution, the man pleaded with authorities claiming he was innocent.
Cameron Willingham was working as an auto mechanic when his house, where his one-year-old twins and two-year-old stepdaughter were, was set on fire.
Willingham was charged, imprisoned and eventually executed for the deaths of the three children resulting from the fire.
Now, 17 years after the fire, and four years after Willingham’s execution, a state commission is being investigated for the decision.
In response to a complaint filed by The Innocence Project, the nine-member Texas Forensic Science Commission is now conducting a thorough investigation of Willingham’s criminal case.
Along with Willingham’s case, the commission is also going to investigate another arson fire that happened in 1986 in Texas and cost Ernest Willis his life.
(Source: Houston Chronicle)
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