The prosecutor heading a commission at the center of a political firestorm will recommend ways to improve the panel’s operations at a Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing Nov. 10. The controversy ignited in September when Gov. Rick Perry abruptly replaced two commission members two days before they were to review an arson expert’s report in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, a death-row inmate executed in 2004 after Perry declined to grant him a 30-day reprieve.
Anti-death penalty activists have contended that Willingham was innocent and that Perry replaced the commission members to block a review of a report questioning whether the fire Willingham was accused of starting was arson.
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