(Courtesy of the Death Penalty Information Center)
Dennis Counterman was freed from a Pennsylvania courtroom on October 18, 2006 after serving many years on the state's death row. Counterman had been convicted and sentenced to death in 1990 for allegedly setting a fire in his own house that resulted in the death of his three children. That conviction was overturned in 2001 because prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defense indicating that the oldest child had a history of fire-setting. ( More ) //////////////////////////////////////
More arson convictions challenged by science
By Maurice Possley
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 18, 2006, 8:28 PM CDT
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Changing science casts doubt
on arson conviction
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned cabin at a church camp, while her father survived.
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