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(11-08-09) GUEST COMMENTARY: A work in progress
I am John Bradley, the elected District Attorney in Williamson County and the new presiding officer of the nine-member Texas Forensic Science Commission. I am writing to introduce myself, explain the purpose of the Commission and inform you about the work the Commission now faces.
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Links of interest
Here are some Web site links of interest in the Cameron Todd Willingham case:
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(10-27-09) Texas Forensic Science Commission questioned
The City of Corsicana is questioning the Texas Forensic Science Commission’s ability to look at the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, since it happened 14 years before the commission was created.
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(10-26-09) Report: Willingham's former wife, 'He confessed'
In a story on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's online newspaper today, Stacey Kykendall, the former wife of executed Cameron Todd Willingham, says he confessed to her before his execution.
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Death penalty opponents rally at Texas Capitol
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Death penalty opponents, convinced an innocent man was executed in 2004, staged a rally Saturday at the Texas Capitol to call for a moratorium on capital punishment and to highlight the controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham.
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(10-24-09) Report: Willingham at center of anti-death penalty march Saturday
In a story on its online newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald reports the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham will be at the center of a rally Saturday in Austin. waco attorney Walter Reaves Jr. was Willingham's attorney during his final appeals.
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(10-20-09) Ex-governor White urges rethink of death penalty
Former Texas Gov. Mark White said he believes it's time that the state reconsider its use of capital punishment because — among other reasons — the risk of putting innocent people to death is too great.
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(10-18-09) New Yorker author responds to Kuykendall affidavit
David Grann, author of a lengthy article in The New Yorker magazine questioning the arson investigation in the Cameron Todd Willingham case has responded
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(10-15-09) VIDEO: Willingham attorney appears on CNN
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(10-15-09) Affidavits dispute claims of innocence
Two affidavits have been released by the City of Corsicana that seem to dispute the declarations in the national media that Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent when he was executed in 2004 for murdering his three daughters
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(10-14-09) Perry: Willingham ‘a monster’
A man put to death in 2004 for killing his three children was “a monster,” and suggestions that he may have been innocent are anti-death penalty propaganda, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.
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(10-14-09) Perry: Washington bad, Willingham prosecution good
Gov. Rick Perry fired up a friendly crowd of real estate agents at a luncheon that sounded and felt like a campaign rally.
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(10-12-09) Perry’s office won’t release expert’s report
Gov. Rick Perry’s office says its comments or analyses of an attorney’s attempt to stop an execution based on an arson expert’s opinion are not public records and is refusing to release the documents, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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(10-09-09) Texas forensics panel shake-up continues
Gov. Rick Perry has further shaken up a state panel that was set to review a report concluding that a faulty arson investigation led to a Texas inmate's execution,
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(10-07-09) Science commissioners urged Perry to keep chairman
Some members of a forensics commission investigating whether Texas executed an innocent man wrote to Gov. Rick Perry urging him not to replace the panel’s chairman — advice the governor overruled.
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(10-06-09) Hutchison disagrees with Perry on commission move
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says she disagrees with Gov. Rick Perry’s decision to remove three members of the forensic science commission right before they were to hear evidence in an arson capital murder case.
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(10-04-09) City report on arson probe
The City of Corsicana is calling foul in the latest review of the Cameron Todd Willingham case by Craig Beyler.
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(10-04-09) Perry responds to panel shakeup
By appointing a new slate of commissioners to the Texas Forensic Science Commission Wednesday Gov. Rick Perry wasn’t interfering with the commission, he was just doing “business as usual,” said a spokesman Friday.
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(10-02-09) Eyes on Texas DA as new leader of forensics panel
Gov. Rick Perry’s surprise appointment of a conservative ally to lead a panel investigating whether Texas executed an innocent man has raised the question of whether politics will trump science on the state’s forensics board
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(10-01-09) Willingham story makes top of most viewed list on CNN.com
News of Wednesday's move by Texas Governor Rick Perry to remove three panel members from the Texas State Forensic Commission
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(10-02-09) Texas Gov. Perry defends arson board shakeup
Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that he defends his shakeup of a state arson board just days before it was to review a report that concluded a faulty investigation led to a man’s 2004 execution.
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(10-01-09) Arson probe delayed
The meeting to review the case of Cameron Todd Willingham Friday has been canceled, following the dismissal of three members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission Wednesday by Gov. Rick Perry.
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(09-30-09) REPORT: Friday hearing on Willingham case canceled
The Dallas Morning News is reporting in its online edition that Friday's scheduled meeting of the Texas Forensic Science Commission in Dallas has been canceled.
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(09-30-09) REPORT: Gov. Perry removes three members from Texas Forensic Science Commission
Just two days before the Texas Forensic Science Commission is scheduled to hear a report on the 1991 Cameron Todd Willingham arson investigation, the chairman and two members of the state panel have been removed by Texas Governor Rick Perry
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(09-27-09) Willingham case review set for Friday
More than five years after his final act from the Texas death chamber gurney was a profanity-filled tirade, the murder case of executed inmate Cameron Todd Willingham refuses to die.
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(09-18-09) Willingham case featured on ABC's Nightline
ABC News correspondent Terry Moran presented a report on the network's "Nightline" program on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 about the case of Cameron Todd Willingham.
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(09-13-09) Soundoff on Willingham
Feedback received via 'Soundoff' on the case of Cameron Todd Willingham
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(09-09-09) State panel to hear Willingham arson report
An independent review that claims the arson investigation that led to the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham was flawed will be presented to a state panel Oct. 2 in Dallas.
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(09-06-09) No doubts
The undeniable facts of the Cameron Todd Willingham case are these:
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(09-06-09) New Yorker's Grann responds to Jackson's Willingham commentary
David Grann's story about the Cameron Todd Willingham case in The New Yorker magazine has added to the debate over Willingham's guilt or innocence, and raised questions about Texas' death penalty.
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(8-21-92) Father found guilty
A Navarro County jury Thursday convicted a Corsicana man of capital murder in the deaths of his three daughters in a house fire Dec. 23, 1991.The eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for one hour and 10 minutes before finding Cameron Todd Willingham, 24, guilty in the deaths of 1-year-old twins Kamron and Kameron and 2-year-old Amber.
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(08-22-92) Willingham receives 'ultimate punishment'
A 24-year-old Corsicana man, convicted Thursday of capital murder in the deaths of his three daughters, was sentenced to death Friday.
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(08-22-09) Security tight at murder trial
Security was tighter than usual this week at the highly-publicized capital murder trial of Cameron Todd Willingham, due to rumored threats on the defendant’s life and a recent incident in which five people were shot – two killed—in a Tarrant County courthouse.
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(08-20-09) Testimony ends in murder trial
Testimony ended Wednesday afternoon in the capital murder trial of a 24-year-old Corsicana man charged with the deaths of his three daughters who died in a house fire last December.
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(08-19-02) Capital murder trial gets underway Tuesday
An arson investigator with the State Fire Marshall’s office Tuesday said the father of three young girls deliberately set the fire that killed the girls last December.
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(08-17-92) Trial to start on Tuesday
The capital murder trial of 24-year-old Cameron Todd Willingham is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 13th District Court in the Navarro County Courthouse.
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(08-14-92) Six jurors picked for upcoming murder trial
Six jurors had been selected by late Friday morning for the upcoming capital murder trial of Cameron Todd Willingham.
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(08-13-92) Four jurors selected in murder trial
Four jurors had been selected by late Thursday morning for the upcoming capital murder trial of Cameron Todd Willingham
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(08-12-92) 3 picked for jury
Three jurors were agreed upon by prosecution and defense counsel as of Wednesday morning for the upcoming capital murder trial of Cameron Todd Willingham
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(08-11-92) Jury selection starts in man’s murder trial
The process of selecting a jury in the case of a 24-year-old Corsicana man accused of killing his three children by setting fire to the house in which the girls slept began Monday.
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(08-04-92) Venue change request denied
A request for a change of venue for the capital murder trial of Cameron Todd Willingham was denied by the 13th District Court Monday.
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(01-18-92) Indictment may be sought for capital murder
Prosecutors probably will seek a capital murder indictment against a Corsicana man accused of deliberately setting the fire that killed his three children, according to Navarro County District Attorney Pat Batchelor.
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(01-15-92) Grand jury to hear fire case next month
A Navarro County grand jury will consider charges against the man accused of killing his three children by deliberately setting a house fire in February, according to Navarro County District Attorney Pat Batchelor.
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(01-09-92) Father held in deaths of three young children
The father of three small girls killed in a house fire two days before Christmas was arrested Wednesday night for deliberately setting the blaze and charged with three counts of murder.
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(12-26-91) Obituaries
Amber Willingham
Karmen Willingham
Kameron Willingham
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(12-26-91) Police Activity
Cameron Todd Willingham reported that someone looted some property from his fire damaged home at 1213 W 11th Ave. sometime between Monday and Tuesday.
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(12-24-91) Cause of blaze still unknown
The cause of the blaze that claimed the lives of three children Monday has not yet been determined, according to authorities.
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(12-23-91) Fire claims lives of 3 children
A house fire at 1200 W. 11th Ave. claimed the lives of three children late Monday morning, twin 1-year-olds and a 2-year-old girl.
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(2-14-92) Father indicted for capital murder
A Navarro County grand jury handed down indictments of capital murder against a Corsicana man accused of killing his three children by deliberately setting fire to the house in which the young girls slept.
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(09-03-09) GUEST COMMENTARY: No arson means no crime occurred
I am very puzzled by Mr. Jackson’s column on the Cameron Todd Willingham’s case and by the Daily Sun’s willingness to print it.
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(09-02-09) Arson debate renewed
The name Cameron Todd Willingham resonates locally, and for good reason. The deaths of his children, his ensuing trial, and — in 2004 — his execution weigh heavily on minds in a small town
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(09-02-09) New Yorker author conducts Q&A on Willingham execution
David Grann, the author of the 16,000-word piece on the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, had a Q&A chat Wednesday on the Web site for the New Yorker magazine, which published the piece this week.
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(09-02-09) GUEST COMMENTARY: Time to face truth in Willingham case
Judge John Jackson, who prosecuted Cameron Todd Willingham in the 1990s, recently wrote in the Corsicana Daily Sun that “facts” showing “overwhelming evidence” of Willingham’s guilt are being ignored.
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(08-28-09) JACKSON: Guest Commentary - Willingham guilt never in doubt
I am convinced that in the absence of any arson testimony, the outcome of the trial would have been unchanged
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(08-26-09) Report claims Willingham investigation flawed
DALLAS (AP) — A fire investigation that led to the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham of Corsicana in the 1991 deaths of his three young children was so seriously flawed that its conclusion of arson can’t be supported, a fire expert hired by the state said in a new report.
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(08-15-08) State panel to investigate Willingham fire
A state panel voted Friday to investigate whether a man executed in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three daughters actually started the blaze.
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(02-18-04) Willingham does not go quietly at execution
With much of his last statement a torrent of obscenities directed toward his ex-wife, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville Tuesday night for the 1991 arson murders of his three daughters.
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(02-08-04) The Death Row story: Willingham still proclaims innocence
The clock is ticking as the hour allotted for an interview with Cameron Todd Willingham melts away.
But, more importantly, it’s another hour in the life of what is perhaps Navarro County’s most notorious member of death row.
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(12-30-03) Willingham execution date set
If actions taken in a Navarro County courtroom Monday stand, Cameron Todd Willingham knows exactly when he will die.
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(12-02-03) Willingham date to be set at hearing
Cameron Todd Willingham will be spending a portion of the final days of 2003 finding out how many “final days” he himself may have.
