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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... Rick Perry's obvious attempt to suppress the truth in the supposed arson case against Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for a crime that probably didn’t occur, reveals the heinousness of capital punishment. That an innocent individual can be executed is disturbing. That the death penalty—which has claimed about 50 lives in the United States so far this year—is used for political...
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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of Texans. Earlier coverage begins with this post. All coverage is also available through the Todd Willingham category index. The Beyler report prepared for the Forensic Science Commission is here in Adobe .pdf format. David Grann's New Yorker article is noted here . The Innocence Project's Todd Willingham resource page provides a concise overview of the Willingham...
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The Waco Tribune-Herald - News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... that propelled the issue of arson investigations into the national spotlight is that of Cameron Todd Willingham. The Corsicana resident was executed in 2004 after being convicted of setting a 1991 house fire that killed his three young daughters.Several nationally recognized arson experts reviewed the case and concluded there is no evidence that proves the fire was intentionally set....
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Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... of immense injustices. At this rate, BHL would need about 70 adjectives to describe the Cameron Todd Willingham case .) To the extent that one can infer an argument from the surrounding text, the mentions of his wife and family seem to imply a retread of Robert Harris's apparent argument that if you have a spouse and kids you should get one retrospective child rape for free. I once...
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Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I don’t know what John Bradley’s goals are as the Chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. But if one of them is to dispel the notion that he’s Rick Perry’s stooge, who was installed for the purpose of covering the Governor’s ass on the Cameron Todd Willingham case, then he’s doing it wrong. John Bradley, [...]