The following story reports that the board will not recommend that Cameron Todd Willingham - who may have been wrongly executed - be recommended for a posthumous full pardon.
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has voted not to recommend a posthumous full pardon for Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed a decade ago after being convicted of setting a house fire that killed his three young daughters.
“This whole process is, unfortunately, typical of this board, where they don’t demonstrate that they’ve actually considered the substantial evidence that we’ve put before them,” said Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, which has led the charge to clear Willingham's name in the case.
A story below highlighted the unwillingness of the Texas Legislature to establish an Innocence Commission to review the problems that lead to wrongful convictions. Critics argue that Texas has yet to face this problem head on.
