Reliably Austin
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Forensic Science Commission Meets

The Walls Unit of the Huntsville Penitentiary, where Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004. The state's Forensic Science Commission considers a final report on evidence in that case this week.
Image courtesy flickr.com/BizarreRecords
The Walls Unit of the Huntsville Penitentiary, where Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004. The state's Forensic Science Commission considers a final report on evidence in that case this week.

The state's Forensic Science Commission begins two days of meetings.  On their agenda will be discussion of a final report on the case of Cameron Todd Willingham.  A 1991 arson ruling convicted Willingham of setting fire to his Corsicana home and killing his three daughters. He was executed in 2004.

Several expert reviews of the evidence have indicated that the fire was an accident. 

The meetings are also expected to be the last for commission chair John Bradley.  The Williamson County District Attorney was named to the position last year in a recess appointment by Governor Rick Perry, just days before the commission was to take up the evidence in the Willingham case.  Speculation is that the Texas Senate will reject Bradley's nomination for a full term.

Ian Crawford joined KUT as News Editor in 2008, after spending over four years as a reporter/anchor at KLBJ Radio in Austin. He began his broadcasting career while still in high school in Southern Oregon. During high school and college at the University of Oregon, he worked at times as a reporter, news anchor, sports play-by-play reporter, music host and commercial producer before moving to Texas in 2003.
Related Content