The Execution of Cathy Henderson

Cathy Henderson was convicted of killing three-and-a-half-month-old Brandon Baugh, for whom she was the mother. Cathy has maintained that the death was an accident, but at her trial in 1995 the court denied her request for funds to conduct a biomechanical investigation to prove her side of the story. The state offered no crime scene evidence at the trial, only the testimony of medical experts who stated that the nature of the injury proved that the death was intentional. The new science of injury biomechanics now places serious doubt on Cathy Henderson's guilt, and warrants a serious reexamination of the evidence used to convict her. Henderson has been on death row in Gatesville, Texas for 12 years and is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, June 13, 2007.